Definitions for lands

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lands land

Spelling: [land]

IPA: /lænd/

Lands is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in lands (adlns).

Definitions for lands

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.

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 lands

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 lands

She lies athwart the lands, and her shadow is over the seas.

The king set about punishing Marshal, opposing his attempts to establish his family in their lands in Ireland and Wales.

Construction is due to begin before the end of December, which means that lands will be taken, villages relocated.

They were the heroes of other lands; but have we not heroes also of our own?

Many were the messages of regard and condolence that came from other lands.

After checking out a few more varieties, she lands on one that feels close enough to home.

Washington now found himself unable to even see the lands he was banking on to leave a lasting fortune.

The stream of bubbly from the popped champagne bottle creates an angelic arc over her, and lands right in the glass.

In close connexion with the Survey and lands Department is the topic of exploration.

Just now you spoke of your Essex lands in the fair Vale of Dedham as gone.