Definitions for landsmen

landsmen lands·man

Spelling: [landz-muh n]
IPA: /ˈlændz mən/

Landsmen is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 314 anagrams from letters in landsmen (adelmnns).

Definitions for landsmen

noun

  1. Also, landman. a person who lives or works on land.
  2. an inexperienced sailor or one who has not been to sea before.
  3. a person from the same town, geographical area, region, etc., as another; compatriot.

Origin of landsmen

before 1000 for sense “native”; Middle English landes man, londes man, Old English landes mann; see land, 's1, -m

Examples for landsmen

HALL is a landsman, and therefore the proper man to send in search of land.

These are the stock-in-trade of the landsman; they were too real for the sailor to sing about.

Shall I appoint a mariner to be skipper of my vessel, or a landsman?

A trick upon a landsman, generally performed in a guard-ship.

Madden realized he was seeing what every landsman dreams of seeing: a naval battle.

A landsman or boy in a coaster, undeserving the pay of a full-man.

He was—let this excuse be made for him—a landsman, comparatively new to the Islands.

It was a daring act; so daring that, landsman as I was, I deemed it almost foolhardy.

And, being by profession a sailor, I may be able to do much that a landsman could not.

A fine paid by a youngster or landsman on first mounting the top.

Word Value for landsmen
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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