Definitions for Land

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Land land

Spelling: [land]

IPA: /lænd/

Land is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Land (adln).

Definitions for Land

noun

1. any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands:
2. an area of ground with reference to its nature or composition:
3. an area of ground with specific boundaries:
4. rural or farming areas, as contrasted with urban areas:
5. Law. any part of the earth's surface that can be owned as property, and everything annexed to it, whether by nature or by the human hand. any legal interest held in land.
6. Economics. natural resources as a factor of production.
7. a part of the surface of the earth marked off by natural or political boundaries or the like; a region or country:
8. the people of a region or country.
9. Audio. the flat surface between the grooves of a phonograph record.
10. a realm or domain:
11. a surface between furrows, as on a millstone or on the interior of a rifle barrel.
12. Scot. a tenement house.
13. Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera.

Idioms

1. land / fall on one's feet. feet (def 3).
2. see how the land lies, to investigate in advance; inform oneself of the facts of a situation before acting: Compare lay of the land.

Verb phrases

1. land on, Informal. to reprimand; criticize:

verb (used with object)

1. to bring to or set on land:
2. to bring into or cause to arrive in a particular place, position, or condition:
3. Informal. to catch or capture; gain; win:
4. Angling. to bring (a fish) to land, or into a boat, etc., as with a hook or a net.

verb (used without object)

1. to come to land or shore:
2. to go or come ashore from a ship or boat.
3. to alight upon a surface, as the ground, a body of water, or the like:
4. to hit or strike the ground, as from a height:
5. to strike and come to rest on a surface or in something:
6. to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes followed by up):

Origin of Land

before 900; Middle English (noun and v.), Old English (noun); cognate with Dutch, German, Old Norse, Gothic land; akin to Irish lann, Welsh llan church (orig. enclosure), Breton lann heath. S

Examples for Land

It seems pleasant to be on land after being on shipboard so many weeks.

Soon the news of his terrible deed spread throughout the land.

"Another tribe is trying to break into our land," he said to himself.

In this American dream, we are emotionally tied to the people and land of our communities.

For every nanosecond that I miraculously lift off the ground, I land with an inordinately loud thud.

land of the sunshine, the deep blue sky, and snow-topped hills!

Rural churches were deserted, and the connection between the land and the bounty of harvests was gone.

In its over 1,000-year history, the land has soaked in the blood of millions of people.

It was supposed to land in Singapore at 8:57 a.m. local time.

His name was Cup and he too had inherited his land from a hundred other Cups who had gone before.