Definitions for landslide

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landslide land·slide

Spelling: [land-slahyd]

IPA: /ˈlændˌslaɪd/

Landslide is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 418 anagrams from letters in landslide (addeillns).

Definitions for landslide

noun

1. the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope.
2. the mass itself.
3. an election in which a particular victorious candidate or party receives an overwhelming mass or majority of votes:
4. any overwhelming victory:

verb (used without object)

1. to come down in or as in a landslide.
2. to win an election by an overwhelming majority.

Origin of landslide

An Americanism dating back to 1830-40; land + slide

Examples for landslide

The election of 1964 was a landslide victory for the Democratic Party.

The election of 1964 produced the most liberal Congress since the Democratic landslide of 1936.

The Ohio governor is about to score a landslide win in a state Republicans need to win the White House.

Lead failed to do it, but God sent the landslide, and you are as good as dead.

We believe in Him by a landslide 74 percent to 26 percent margin.

But after winning a landslide election in his own right, TR unwisely said he would not run for a third term.

And a great pity the way he dropped off and had his mine lost by a landslide.

I was nearly killed in a landslide, and now the men who saved me from that are done for.

The beasts were swept off in a landslide of loose rock—all but one.

Hispanic Republican moderate Brian Sandoval just won a landslide reelection in Nevada.