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Definition land

Etymology 1

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-Germanic *land? (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (l?do), from Proto-Slavic *l?da (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
3. A country or region.
4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
6. A general country, state, or territory.
7. (often in combination) realm, domain.
8. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
9. (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
10. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
11. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
12. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
13. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
14. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
15. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
16. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

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.
2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
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.
6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
7. (transitive) To deliver.

Adjective

land (not comparable)

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

Etymology 2

From Old English hland.

Noun

land (uncountable)

1. lant; urine

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