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Land

/ Land /
verb/noun

Definitions & Examples

verb Sense 1
deliver (a blow)
"He landed several blows on his opponent''s head"
Type of:
deliver drive home
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb Sense 2
bring ashore
"The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
Type of:
bring convey take
Kinds of:
ground run aground
Derived:
dry land earth ground solid ground terra firma
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb Sense 3
arrive on shore
"The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
Type of:
arrive get come
Derived:
shore dry land earth ground solid ground
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
verb Sense 4
cause to come to the ground
"the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
Type of:
arrive get come
Derived:
dry land earth ground solid ground terra firma
Causes:
set down
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Domain:
air travel aviation air
verb Sense 5
reach or come to rest
"The bird landed on the highest branch"
"The plane landed in Istanbul"
Type of:
arrive get come
Kinds of:
alight light perch force-land beach
Derived:
lander dry land earth ground solid ground
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
noun Sense 6
the land on which real estate is located
"he built the house on land leased from the city"
Type of:
real property real estate realty
Kinds of:
farmstead homestead no man's land
noun Sense 7
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)
Type of:
industrialist inventor discoverer
noun Sense 8
material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
"the land had never been plowed"
"good agricultural soil"
Type of:
object physical object
Kinds of:
badlands bottomland bottom coastland cultivated land
noun Sense 9
the solid part of the earth''s surface
"the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"
"the earth shook for several minutes"
"he dropped the logs on the ground"
Type of:
object physical object
Kinds of:
America the Americas archipelago beachfront cape
Has parts:
Earth world globe
Derived:
ground run aground earth down shoot down
noun Sense 10
the people who live in a nation or country
"a statement that sums up the nation''s mood"
"the news was announced to the nation"
"the whole country worshipped him"
Type of:
people
Kinds of:
Dutch Dutch people British British people the British
noun Sense 11
working the land as an occupation or way of life
"farming is a strenuous life"
"there''s no work on the land any more"
Type of:
occupation business job
Derived:
farm
verb Sense 12
bring into a different state
"this may land you in jail"
Type of:
change alter modify
See also:
reduce cut down cut back trim trim down
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
noun Sense 13
a domain in which something is dominant
"the untroubled kingdom of reason"
"a land of make-believe"
"the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
Type of:
sphere domain area
Kinds of:
lotusland lotus land
noun Sense 14
extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
"the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
Type of:
real property real estate realty
Kinds of:
freehold glebe leasehold smallholding homestead
noun Sense 15
the territory occupied by a nation
"he returned to the land of his birth"
"he visited several European countries"
Type of:
administrative district administrative division territorial division
Kinds of:
banana republic fatherland homeland motherland mother country
verb Sense 16
shoot at and force to come down
"the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
Derived:
dry land earth ground solid ground terra firma
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
noun Sense 17
territory over which rule or control is exercised
"his domain extended into Europe"
"he made it the law of the land"
Type of:
region
Kinds of:
archduchy barony duchy dukedom earldom
Has parts:
country state
noun Sense 18
a politically organized body of people under a single government
"the state has elected a new president"
"African nations"
"students who had come to the nation''s capitol"
"the country''s largest manufacturer"
"an industrialized land"
Type of:
political unit
Kinds of:
Dominion Reich rogue state renegade state rogue nation
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
18
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
131
Times Searched
5
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Related Words

deliver drive home bring convey take ground run aground arrive get come alight light