land
IPA: ɫˈænd
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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.
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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.
- This land was called AGER PUBLICUS, or _public land_.
- The pilot managed to land the airplane safe on the ground.
- _High land Doctrine_, in contra-distinction to the _Low land_, or
- 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.
- Yes, land, cried Ole Peters, land that one can cart away on thirteen wheelbarrows!
- -- Holland means _hole_ or _hollow land_ -- land lower than the level of contiguous water, and protected by
- Some of this land was sold or given away as "homesteads," and then it became AGER PRIVÁTUS, or _private land_.
- The very thought of being _aground_ comforted some, for, to their minds, it implied nearness to land, and _land_ was, in their idea, safety.
- In a short time the atmosphere over the land becomes cooler than that over the sea; it descends and flows off out to sea; thus forming the _land breeze_.
- High wages, high taxes, and high-priced land, necessitate high farming; and by high farming, I mean growing large crops every year, and on every portion of the farm; but high wages and _low-priced land_ do not necessarily demand high farming.
- Cape Clarence stood out bold and clear, with a midnight sun behind it: and the light streamed through the different ice-choked channels between Capes Hardwicke and Clarence, throwing up the land, _where there was land_, in strong and dark relief.
- States to keep troops in time of peace, and they are expressly distinguished and placed in a separate category from land or naval forces in the sixteenth paragraph above quoted; and the words _land_ and _naval forces_ are shown by paragraphs 12, 13, and 14, to mean the Army and Navy of the Confederate States.