land

IPA: ɫˈænd

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
A country or region.
A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
(often in combination) realm, domain.
(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
(Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
(obsolete) The ground or floor.
(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
(Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
lant; urine
A surname from Middle English.

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
(intransitive) To come into rest.
(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
(transitive) To bring to land.
(transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
(transitive) To acquire; to secure.
(slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.
(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect
(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

Examples of "land" in Sentences

The plane landed safely on the ground.
The brothers reportedly landed in the area.
The land in the area is hilly to mountainous.
The Abbey owned most of the land in the area.
The farmer landed massive fields to cultivate.
The master owned most of the land in the area.
The agricultural land in the area is well irrigated.
The pilot managed to land the airplane safe on the ground.
If the precipitate is partially melted, it will land on the ground as sleet.
Arable fields dominate the land cover of the area and grasslands are infrequent.