'Land' definitions:
Definition of 'land'
(from WordNet)
noun
The land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"
noun
Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil" [syn: land, ground, soil]
noun
Territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land" [syn: domain, demesne, land]
noun
The solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" [syn: land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma]
noun
The territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: country, state, land]
noun
A domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: kingdom, land, realm]
noun
Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" [syn: estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne]
noun
The people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation, land, country]
noun
A politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic]
noun
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991) [syn: Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land]
noun
Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" [syn: farming, land]
verb
Reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" [syn: land, set down]
verb
Cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely" [syn: land, put down, bring down]
verb
Bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail" [syn: bring, land]
verb
Bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
verb
Deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
verb
Arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn: land, set ashore, shore]
verb
Shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" [syn: down, shoot down, land]
Definition of 'Land'
From: GCIDE
- Land \Land\, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land. ]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Go view the land, even Jericho. --Josh. ii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. --Goldsmith.
Definition of 'Land'
From: GCIDE
- Land \Land\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Landed; p. pr. & vb. n. Landing.]
- 1. To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark. [1913 Webster]
- I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Specifically: (Aeronautics) To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway. [PJC]
Definition of 'Land'
From: GCIDE
- Land \Land\, v. i.
- 1. To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 2. Specifically: To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Specifically: To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'land'
From: Moby 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
Words containing 'Land'
- Landed,
- Landing,
- land on,
- land up,
- Bad lands,
- Border land,
- Bottom land,
- Charter land,
- Cooper Landing,
- Court lands,
- Crown land,
- De Land,
- Duchess Landing,
- Fen land,
- Fine of lands,
- Foster land,
- Glenwood Landing,
- Grass land,
- Holy Land,
- Land League,
- Land agent,
- Land blink,
- Land boat,
- Land breeze,
- Land chain,
- Land crab,
- Land fish,
- Land force,
- Land ho,
- Land ice,
- Land leech,
- Land lubber,
- Land measure,
- Land of Nod,
- Land of bondage,
- Land of promise,
- Land of the leal,
- Land office,
- Land pike,
- Land rail,
- Land scrip,
- Land service,
- Land shark,
- Land side,
- Land snail,
- Land spout,
- Land steward,
- Land tortoise,
- Land turtle,
- Land warrant,
- Land wind,
- Landing charges,
- Landing net,
- Landing place,
- Landing stage,
- Landing waiter,
- Law of the land,
- Life land,
- Mays Landing,
- Miller Landing,
- Moss Landing,
- Moss land,
- New land,
- Promised Land,
- Rices Landing,
- Sugar Land,
- The Debatable Land,
- The land league,
- The land of Nod,
- To clear the land,
- To close with the land,
- To lay the land,
- To make land,
- To rib land,
- To set the land,
- To settle the land,
- To shut in the land,
- White land,
- Wild land,
- Woods Landing,
- Worn land,
- Yard of land,
- adelie land,
- aircraft landing,
- airplane landing,
- amphibious landing,
- blind landing,
- coats land,
- common land,
- crash land,
- crash landing,
- cultivated land,
- din land,
- diversionary landing,
- dry land,
- emergency landing,
- enderby land,
- fat of the land,
- forced landing,
- grazing land,
- instrument landing,
- land area,
- land cress,
- land development,
- land drake,
- land grant,
- land line,
- land mass,
- land mile,
- land mine,
- land of enchantment,
- land of lincoln,
- land of opportunity,
- land reform,
- land resources,
- land seal,
- land site,
- land tax,
- land tenure,
- landed estate,
- landed gentry,
- landing approach,
- landing craft,
- landing deck,
- landing field,
- landing flap,
- landing gear,
- landing party,
- landing pattern,
- landing skid,
- landing strip,
- lotus land,
- native land,
- no man's land,
- parcel of land,
- piece of land,
- plot of land,
- shalim land of,
- shalisha land of,
- shinar the land of,
- shual the land of,
- sinim the land of,
- the lay of the land,
- tilled land,
- tob the land of,
- uz the land of,
- victoria land,
- wilkes land,
- zuph land of,
- Cooper Landing, AK,
- De Land Southwest,
- De Land, FL,
- De Land, IL,
- Duchess Landing, OK,
- Glenwood Landing, NY,
- Land O' Lakes,
- Land o' cakes,
- Land of Steady Habits,
- Land-poor,
- Mays Landing, NJ,
- Miller Landing, AK,
- Moss Landing, CA,
- No-man's land,
- North De Land,
- Promised Land, SC,
- Rices Landing, PA,
- Sugar Land, TX,
- Table-land,
- West De Land,
- Woods Landing, WY,
- battle of pittsburgh landing,
- belly-land,
- edwin herbert land,
- force-land,
- polaroid land camera,
- queen maud land,
- to get the lay of the land,
- De Land Southwest, FL,
- Land O' Lakes, FL,
- Never-Never land,
- No-man's-land,
- North De Land, FL,
- Pope-Vannoy Landing,
- West De Land, FL,
- Woods Landing-Jelm,
- cloud-cuckoo-land,
- land-office business,
- three-point landing,
- Pope-Vannoy Landing, AK,
- Woods Landing-Jelm, WY