Land

Noun

 * 1) The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
 * Most insects live on land.
 * 1) real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
 * There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
 * 1) A country or region.
 * They come from a faraway land.
 * 1) A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
 * 2) Ground that is suitable for farming.
 * Plant the potatoes in the land.
 * 1) (Ireland / colloquial) a fright.
 * He got an awful land when the police arrived.
 * 1)  A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
 * 2) In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
 * 3) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

Derived terms

 * bookland
 * brushland
 * bushland
 * cloud cuckoo-land
 * Disneyland
 * downland
 * dry land
 * fantasy land
 * farmland
 * fat of the land
 * flatland
 * flogging the land
 * glebe-land
 * grassland
 * highland
 * homeland
 * Lalaland
 * land ahoy
 * land bridge
 * land degradation
 * land down under
 * land bridge
 * land line/landline
 * land mark
 * land mine
 * land of opportunity
 * Land of the Free
 * land yacht
 * landfall
 * landfill
 * landform


 * landholder
 * landlady
 * landless
 * landlocked
 * landlord
 * landlubber
 * landman
 * landmark
 * landscape
 * landslide
 * landslide
 * landward/landwards
 * mainland
 * moorland
 * no man's land
 * on land
 * outland
 * overland
 * pastureland
 * pineland
 * playland
 * plowland
 * revenue land
 * spit of land
 * TV land
 * upland
 * wildland
 * woodland

Verb

 * 1)  To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
 * The plane is about to land.
 * 1)  To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
 * 2) * 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:
 * 10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
 * 1)  To come into rest.
 * 2)  To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
 * 3)  To bring to land.
 * It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
 * Use the net to land the fish.
 * 1)  To acquire; to secure.
 * 2)  To deliver.

Derived terms

 * crash-land
 * land on one's bridge


 * relland

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to land.
 * 2) Residing or growing on land.

Adjectives for Land
brawny-breasted; weather-beaten; tempting; wide; uninhabited; fruitful; radiant; rolling; toiling; devastated; depreciated; desolate; swampy; bleeding; cultivated; uncharted; intolerant; sylvan; eloquent; unshorn; exhausted; delightful; twilight; favored; death-polluted; dying; delectable; woeful; venerable; alluvial; granitic; barren; arable; heavenly; sickly; dewy; contiguous; pastoral; sun-soaked; virgin; enchanted; ceded; broad; monotonous; flat; factious; romantic; quaggy; guilty; boggy; habitable; sterile; forbidden; allodial; lifeless; gasping; sheltering; delicious; forsaken; debatable; enlightened; guileless; dirty; morgaged; dawning; smiling; genial; sullen; scorched; superior; unhappy; untraveled; chivalric; gracious; inspirational; wretched; time-stricken; foreign; extreme; sprightly; listening; neighboring; untilled; goodly-growing; fertile; fallen; long-promised; hostile; springtime; sinless; disburdened; dipping; defenceless; unappropriated; wilderness; unoccupied; well-contented; watered; dependent; curtained; ruined; gentler;sorrow-stricken; shadowy; hazy; ice-prisoned; white; useless; beautiful; vacation; placid; tight; upheaved; sculptured; aesthetic; undulous; dim; vast; tranquil; irrigable; rich; blatant; fabled; misty; scrubby; furrowed; shadowless; antique; divers (pi); unseated; high-cost; touch-and-go; sluggish; marshy; fettered; hollow; bustling; native; derelict; waste; heath; many-tinted; boundless; prosperous; bountiful; invisible; time¬less; sodden; unexplored; unconcerned; financial; fairy; luxuriant; exhaustless; desirable; agricultural; surrounding; night-enfolded; spiritual; unknown; gullied; middling; hereditary; distant; alien; dismembered; stubble; blossoming.

Verbs for Land
apportion—; bargain for—; cede—; claim —; cleanse—; corrupt—; cultivate—; dark¬en—; defile—; denude—; despoil—; dower —; engulf—; enrich—; exploit—; fertilize —; inhabit—; inherit—; lease—; link—; nurse—; plow—; portion—; purge—; rule —; scour—; sow—; squat on—; sweep—; till—; vest—s in; —abuts; —adjoins; — yields.

Thesaurus
acquire, acreage, acres, airspace, alight, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arrive, bag, belt, berth, body politic, buffer state, captive nation, capture, catch, chattels real, chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, climb down, colony, come down, come in, come to land, commonweal, commonwealth, confines, continental shelf, corridor, country, county, crash-land, debark, debus, demesne, department, deplane, descend, detrain, dirt, disembark, disemplane, dismount, district, ditch, division, dock, domain, dominion, downwind, drop anchor, dry land, duchy, dukedom, earldom, earth, empery, empire, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, environs, estate, fatherland, foul, free city, get, get down, get off, go ashore, grand duchy, ground, grounds, harpoon, heartland, hinterland, homeland, honor, hook, kingdom, landed property, lands, lasso, level off, light, loam, lot, lots, make a landfall, make land, make port, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, manor, mesh, messuage, milieu, moor, motherland, mould, nail, nation, nationality, native land, neighborhood, net, noose, obtain, offshore rights, overshoot, pancake, parcel, part, parts, perch, place, plat, plot, polis, polity, possession, power, praedium, precincts, premises, principality, principate, property, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, purlieus, put in, put into port, quadrat, quarter, reach land, real estate, real property, realm, realty, region, republic, roost, rope, sack, salient, satellite, section, secure, seneschalty, set down, settle, settle down, settle on, settle upon, settlement, sit, snag, snare, sniggle, sod, soil, solid ground, sovereign nation, space, spear, state, sultanate, superpower, take, take captive, talk down, tangle, tangle up with, tenements, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, tie up, toft, toparchia, toparchy, touch down, trap, turf, twelve-mile limit, unboat, unhorse, upwind, vicinage, vicinity, win, zone

Etymology
< land:, lond: <  <. Cognate with West Frisian lân:, Dutch land:, and German Land:.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/l{nd/}}

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: أرض
 * Armenian: ցամաք
 * Basque: lur
 * Belarusian: зямля
 * Blackfoot: ksaahko
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: terra
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: akal
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 土地
 * Cree: askiy
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Fijian: vanua
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ξηρά (ksirá) (dry-land), γη (yi)
 * Hawaiian: honua
 * Hebrew: ארץ, אדמה
 * Hindi: भूमि
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: lando
 * Igbo: ala
 * Indonesian: tanah, bumi, negara, negeri
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 土地
 * Khmer: ដី


 * Korean: 땅, 뭍, 토지 (土地)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: zeme, sauszeme, cietzeme
 * Lithuanian: sausuma, žemė
 * Macedonian: земја
 * Maltese:
 * Maori:
 * North Frisian:
 * Mooring:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: lande
 * Occitan: tèrra
 * Ojibwe: aki, akiin
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Persian: سرزمین
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: uscat, pământ
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit: भूमि
 * Scottish Gaelic: talamh, tìr
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, zemlja
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ardhi sg/pl
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: భూమి (bhūmi)
 * Thai: ดิน, ภู
 * Tongan: fonua
 * Ukrainian: земля
 * Vietnamese: đất


 * Catalan: terra, terreny
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: terre, terrain
 * German: ,
 * Greek: γαίες, εκτάσεις , κτήματα
 * Korean: 땅 (ttang), 토지 (土地, toji)


 * Lithuanian:
 * Nahuatl: tlālli, tlali
 * Novial: lande
 * Romanian: teren, pământ
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Tagalog: lupain


 * Arabic: (bilād)
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: terra
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: contrée, pays
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χώρα
 * Modern: χώρα
 * Korean: 땅 (ttang), 나라 (nara)
 * Latvian: zeme
 * Lithuanian:, šalis
 * Ngarrindjeri:


 * North Frisian:
 * Mooring:
 * Novial: lande
 * Persian:, , ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: țară
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: talamh, tìr
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Taos: pǫ̏’óna
 * West Frisian:


 * French:


 * Croatian:
 * French: terre
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Khmer: ដី
 * Korean: 땅 (ttang), 토지 (土地, toji)


 * Novial: lande
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: pământ (arabil), teren (cultivabil)
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:


 * Russian: нареза (póle naréza)

Verb

 * Breton: douarañ
 * Catalan: aterrar
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: maanduma
 * Ewe: dze
 * Finnish:
 * French: se poser, atterrir
 * German:
 * Greek: προσγειώνω (prosgeióno)
 * Hebrew: נחת
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:


 * Japanese: 着陸する (ちゃくりくする, chakurikú surú); 上陸する (じょうりくする, jōriku surú)
 * Korean: 내리다 (naerida)
 * Latvian: nolaisties
 * Lithuanian: nusileisti, nutūpti
 * Norwegian: lande
 * Ojibwe: boonii
 * Polish: lądować
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: landa
 * Telugu: వాలిపో (vaalipO)
 * Thai: (lohng)


 * Catalan: atracar
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: nousta maihin, laskea maihin
 * Korean: 닿다 (dahda)


 * Polish: dobić do brzegu
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish: landa


 * Danish:
 * Dutch: doen landen, aan de grond zetten
 * Finnish: saada maahan, saada maalle (e.g., fish), laskeutua (can’t really be transitive)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: הנחית


 * Japanese: 着陸する (ちゃくりくする, chakurikú surú); 上陸させる (じょうりくさせる, jōriku saserú)
 * Korean: 내리다 (naerida), 부리다 (burida) (for cargo)
 * Norwegian: lande
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: landa, föra i land
 * Thai: (khreùùang bin lohng sùù pheūūn)

Adjective

 * Polish: lądowy

Noun

 * 1) country (nation state (noun))
 * 2) land

Compounds

 * badeland
 * legeland
 * sommerland
 * vandland

Etymology 1
From land:, from, from.

Etymology 2
See lande:.

Etymology 3
From land:. Possibly influenced by proper nouns like Disneyland: and  Legoland:.

Noun

 * 1) land, country

Derived terms

 * landschap
 * buitenland
 * binnenland
 * hoogland
 * laagland
 * thuisland

Noun
land


 * 1) land
 * 2) coast
 * 3) country, nation
 * 4) ground, soil
 * 5) "the state"

Noun

 * 1)  land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
 * 2)  country
 * Japan er fallegt land.
 * Japan is a beautiful country.
 * 1)  countryside, country
 * Ég bý úti á landi.
 * I live in the country
 * 1)  land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
 * 2)  tracts of land, aestate
 * Ég á þetta land og allt sem er á því.
 * I own this land and everything on it.

Derived terms

 * láta lönd og leið (+, to not give a damn about something)
 * draga að landi (+, to eat somebody's leftovers)
 * draga í land (to give in a little)
 * eiga langt í land (of something- to have a long way to go/to be finished)
 * föðurland
 * landlægur
 * sinn er siður í landi hverju
 * útland
 * með lögum skal land byggja
 * leggja land undir fót
 * Ísland
 * Grænland
 * Frakkland
 * Finnland
 * Svartfjallaland
 * Þýskaland

Noun

 * 1) country
 * 2) land

Etymology
From land:.

Noun

 * 1) land

Derived terms

 * landfruma
 * landfruma

Descendants

 * English: land

Etymology
From, from Indo-European. Cognate with Old Saxon land (Dutch land), Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish ), Gothic. The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Celtic *landā (Welsh llan ‘enclosure’, Breton lann ‘heath’).

Noun

 * 1) land

Descendants

 * Danish:
 * Faroese:
 * Icelandic:


 * Norwegian:
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) Land, country, nation.
 * 2)  land, as opposed to sea or air
 * 3)  land; part of Earth not covered by sea
 * 4)  land; ground suitable for farming
 * 5) short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground used for a hobby-based growing of vegetables, flowers, berries and other plants

Synonyms

 * country
 * nation


 * neither sea nor air
 * backe
 * landbacke
 * mark


 * ground suitable for farming
 * mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)

Derived terms

 * landa