 land |
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| 1. | [ noun ] the land on which real estate is located | |
| Examples: | "he built the house on land leased from the city" |
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| Related terms: | real_property no_man's_land farmstead homestead | |
| 2. | [ noun ] material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | |
| Synonyms: | soil ground | |
| Examples: | "the land had never been plowed" "good agricultural soil" |
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| Related terms: | object turf bottomland rangeland cultivated_land coastland permafrost overburden wetland badlands | |
| 3. | [ verb ] reach or come to rest | |
| Synonyms: | set_down | |
| Examples: | "The bird landed on the highest branch" "The plane landed in Istanbul" |
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| Related terms: | arrive alight touch_down crash_land disembark force-land undershoot belly-land beach port lander | |
| 4. | [ noun ] (geography) territory over which rule or control is exercised | |
| Synonyms: | domain demesne | |
| Examples: | "his domain extended into Europe" "he made it the law of the land" |
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| Related terms: | region empire kingdom duchy earldom archduchy grand_duchy viscounty Kingdom_of_God principality sheikdom emirate suzerainty barony fiefdom khnate country | |
| 5. | [ noun ] the solid part of the earth's surface | |
| Synonyms: | ground earth terra_firma solid_ground dry_land | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | object hills island plain mainland floor cape landmass forest America peninsula slash neck oxbow isthmus wonderland foreland archipelago coastal_plain beachfront Earth down ground ground ground earth | |
| 6. | [ noun ] (government,geography) the territory occupied by a nation | |
| Synonyms: | country state nation | |
| Examples: | "he returned to the land of his birth" "he visited several European countries" |
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| Related terms: | administrative_district Cuba Soviet_Union Australia fatherland Iceland European_country Philippines Dominican_Republic Turkey Indonesia kingdom Nauru Comoros Sri_Lanka Burkina_Faso Grenada Haiti east_timor Maldives Jamaica African_country Barbados Saint_Vincent_and_the_Grenadines Trinidad_and_Tobago Asian_country buffer_state Samoa Dominica Cyprus democratic_republic_of_sao_tome_and_principe Papua_New_Guinea Bahamas sultanate Fiji Israel North_American_country South_American_country Tonga Malta Mauritius New_Zealand Vanuatu Saint_Christopher-Nevis Saint_Lucia Marshall_Islands Tuvalu Sao_Tome_e_Principe Seychelles Solomon_Islands Kiribati Russia Ukraine Turkmenistan Cape_Verde Antigua_and_Barbuda rus banana_republic etruria federated_states_of_micronesia tax_haven palau state department domain midland | |
| 7. | [ verb ] cause to come to the ground | |
| Synonyms: | put_down bring_down | |
| Examples: | "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely" |
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| Related terms: | arrive air_travel landing | |
| 8. | [ verb ] bring into a different state | |
| Synonyms: | bring | |
| Examples: | "this may land you in jail" |
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| Related terms: | change reduce rear | |
| 9. | [ noun ] extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | |
| Synonyms: | acres estate demesne landed_estate | |
| Examples: | "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" |
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| Related terms: | real_property plantation barony countryseat smallholding leasehold latifundium seigneury Crown_land manor hacienda homestead entail fief glebe freehold | |
| 10. | [ verb ] (transportation) bring ashore | |
| Examples: | "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
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| Related terms: | bring ground | |
| 11. | [ noun ] the people who live in a nation or country | |
| Synonyms: | country nation a_people nationality | |
| Examples: | "a statement that sums up the nation's mood" "the news was announced to the nation" "the whole country worshipped him" |
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| Related terms: | people Swiss French English British Irish Spanish dutch national | |
| 12. | [ noun ] a domain in which something is dominant | |
| Synonyms: | realm kingdom | |
| Examples: | "the untroubled kingdom of reason" "a land of make-believe" "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" |
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| Related terms: | sphere lotus_land | |
| 13. | [ adjective ] relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land | |
| Examples: | "land vehicles" |
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| Related terms: | air sea overland onshore | |
| 14. | [ verb ] deliver, as of a blow | |
| Examples: | "He landed several blows on his opponent's head" |
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| Related terms: | deliver | |
| 15. | [ noun ] (politics,geography) a politically organized body of people under a single government | |
| Synonyms: | state country nation commonwealth body_politic res_publica | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | political_unit world_power ally Reich dominion renegade_state sea_power city_state suzerain estate | |
| 16. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1358 | |
| 17. | [ noun ] (photography,work,business) United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991) | |
| Synonyms: | edwin_herbert_land din_land | |
| Related terms: | inventor industrialist | |
| 18. | [ adjective ] operating or living or growing on land | |
| Synonyms: | terrestrial | |
| Related terms: | amphibious aquatic | |
| 19. | [ verb ] (nautical) arrive on shore | |
| Synonyms: | shore set_ashore | |
| Examples: | "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" |
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| Related terms: | arrive shore | |
| 20. | [ verb ] shoot at and force to come down | |
| Synonyms: | shoot_down down | |
| Examples: | "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" |
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| 21. | [ noun ] (work,agriculture) working the land as an occupation or way of life | |
| Synonyms: | farming | |
| Examples: | "farming is a strenuous life" "there's no work on the land any more" |
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| Related terms: | occupation farm | |
| Similar spelling: |
Landy Lando Landi Lande Landa Landey landau Lawanda lamedh Lant |
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