land
UK [lænd] · US [ɫeə̯nd] ~ [ɫɛə̯nd] noun, verb, proper noun
- noun The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. “Most insects live on land.”
- noun Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected. “There are 50 acres of land in this estate.”
- noun A country or region. “They come from a faraway land.”
- noun A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- noun The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming. “wet land”
- noun (often in combination) Realm, domain. “I'm going to Disneyland.”
- noun (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
- noun (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- verb (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air. “The plane is about to land.”
- verb (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- verb (intransitive) To come into rest.
- verb (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- verb (transitive) To bring to land. “It can be tricky to land a helicopter.”
- verb (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
- verb (transitive) To acquire; to secure. “She landed a job at the company.”
- verb (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score. “Too ugly to ever land a chick.”
- noun lant; urine
- proper noun A surname from Middle English.
Synonyms
furlong alight ground soil domain demesne dry land earth solid ground terra firma country state kingdom realm estate landed estate acres nation commonwealth res publica body politic Din Land Edwin Herbert Land farming set down put down bring down bring set ashore shore
Etymology
From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), Yola lhoan, lloan, loan, londe, lone (“land”), North Frisian loun, luin, lun, Lön, lönj, löön (“land”), Saterland Frisian Lound (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Limburgish Land, landj, Laïnt (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), Luxembourgish and German Land (“land, country, state”), Vilamovian łaond (“land”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lędo (“heath, wasteland”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).
From Middle English *land, from Old English hland. More at lant.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Urine. See Lant. [Obs.]
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
- verb To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
Etymology [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw., Dan., and Goth. land.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “land”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details