Meaning of 'land' (Webster Dictionary)
- Urine. See Lant.
- The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to
water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and
seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.
- Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth,
considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as
a country, estate, farm, or tract.
- Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet
land; good or bad land.
- The inhabitants of a nation or people.
- The mainland, in distinction from islands.
- The ground or floor.
- The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several
portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
- Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures,
woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees,
water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real
estate.
- The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of
plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or
grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level
part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of
a rifled gun between the grooves.
- To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come
to the end of a course.
- To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft;
to disembark; to debark.
- To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a
fish.
- To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or
reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near
the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one
in difficulties or mistakes.
Meaning of 'land' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a domain in which something is dominant
Example in sentence:- a land of make-believe;
- the rise of the realm of cotton in the south;
- the untroubled kingdom of reason
Meaning (2):
- the people who live in a nation or country
Example in sentence:- a statement that sums up the nation's mood;
- the news was announced to the nation;
- the whole country worshipped him
Meaning (3):
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
Example in sentence:- African nations;
- an industrialized land;
- students who had come to the nation's capitol;
- the country's largest manufacturer;
- the state has elected a new president
Meaning (4):
- agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
Example in sentence:- farming is a strenuous life;
- there's no work on the land any more
Meaning (5):
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
Example in sentence:- good agricultural soil;
- the land had never been plowed
Meaning (6):
- the land on which real estate is located
Example in sentence:- he built the house on land leased from the city
Meaning (7):
- the solid part of the earth's surface
Example in sentence:- he dropped the logs on the ground;
- the earth shook for several minutes;
- the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land
Meaning (8):
- territory over which rule or control is exercised
Example in sentence:- he made it the law of the land;
- his domain extended into Europe
Meaning (9):
- the territory occupied by a nation
Example in sentence:- he returned to the land of his birth;
- he visited several European countries
Meaning (10):
- extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Example in sentence:- the family owned a large estate on Long Island
Meaning (11):
- deliver (a blow)
Example in sentence:- He landed several blows on his opponent's head
Meaning (12):
- reach or come to rest
Example in sentence:- The bird landed on the highest branch;
- The plane landed in Istanbul
Meaning (13):
- bring ashore
Example in sentence:- The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island
Meaning (14):
- shoot at and force to come down
Example in sentence:- the enemy landed several of our aircraft
Meaning (15):
- cause to come to the ground
Example in sentence:- the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
Meaning (16):
- arrive on shore
Example in sentence:- The ship landed in Pearl Harbor
Meaning (17):
- bring into a different state
Example in sentence:- this may land you in jail
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