Land

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English

Noun

Land (plural Lands)
  1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
    Most insects live on land.
  2. 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.
  3. A country or region.
    They come from a faraway land.
  4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  5. Ground that is suitable for farming.
    Plant the potatoes in the land.
  6. (Ireland / colloquial) a fright.
    He got an awful land when the police arrived.
  7. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  8. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  9. The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun “land”

Verb

Land (third-person singular simple present Lands, present participle Landing, simple past and past participle Landed)

  1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
    The plane is about to land.
  2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
    • 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.
  3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
  4. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  5. (transitive) To bring to land.
    It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
    Use the net to land the fish.
  6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
  7. (transitive) To deliver.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the verb "land"

Adjective

Land (not comparable)

  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

Middle English < Old English land, lond (“ground, soil, defined piece of land, country”) < Proto-Germanic *landan < Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with West Frisian lân, Dutch land, and German Land.

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

the part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water
real estate or landed property
a country or region
someone's homeplace
ground that is suitable for farming
The space between the rifling grooves in a gun

Verb

to descend to a surface, especially from the air
to come into rest
to arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water
to bring to land
to acquire; to secure
to deliver

Adjective

Of or relating to land
Residing or growing on land

Statistics

Danish

Noun

Land n. (singular definite Landet, plural indefinite Lande)

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

Notes

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-, -land.

Inflection
    Inflection of Land
neuter gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative Land Landet Lande Landene
genitive Lands Landets Landes Landenes

Verb

Land

  1. imperative of lande

Noun

*land n.

  1. (bound morpheme, only used as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise
Compounds

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landan, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lan/, [lanˀ]

Etymology 2

See lande (“to land”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lan/, [lanˀ]

Etymology 3

From land (“country”). Possibly influenced by proper nouns like English Disneyland and Danish Legoland.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /-lan/, [-ˌlanˀ]

Dutch

Noun

Land n. (plural landen, diminutive landje, diminutive plural landjes)

  1. land, country

Derived terms

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Verb

Land

  1. first-person singular present indicative of landen.
  2. imperative of landen.

Pronunciation

Faroese

Noun

land n.

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

Declension

n8 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative land landið lond londini
Accusative land landið lond londini
Dative landi landinum londum londunum
Genitive lands landsins landa landanna

Icelandic

Noun

Land n. (genitive singular lands, plural lönd)

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

Declension

declension of Land</small>
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landið lönd löndin
accusative land landið lönd löndin
dative landi landinu löndum löndunum
genitive lands landsins landa landanna

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /lant/
    Rhymes: -ant

Derived terms

Norwegian

Noun

Land n.

  1. country
  2. land

Inflection

    Inflection of Land</small>
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål n Land Landet Land Landa/Landene
Nynorsk n Land Landet Land Landa [Landi]

Etymology

From Old Norse land.

References

  • “Land” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

Old English

Noun

Land n.

  1. land

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Old Norse

Noun

Land n.

  1. land

Declension

    declension of Land
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative land landit lǫnd lǫndin
Accusative land landit lǫnd lǫndin
Dative landi landinu lǫndum lǫndunum
Genitive lands landsins landa landanna

Descendants

See also

Swedish

Noun

Land n.

  1. Land, country, nation.
  2. (uncountable) land, as opposed to sea or air
  3. (uncountable) land; part of Earth not covered by sea
  4. (uncountable) 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

Declension

Declension of Land 1-3
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Land Landet länder länderna
genitive Lands Landets länders ländernas
Declension of Land 2-5 (rarely and historic also of land 1)
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Land Landet Land Landen
genitive Lands Landets Lands Landens

Pronunciation

Synonyms

country
neither sea nor air
ground suitable for farming
  • mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)

Derived terms

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