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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 l�n (�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 l�ndin� (�heath, grassland�).
Noun
land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
- A country or region.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- A general country, state, or territory.
- (often in combination) realm, domain.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- (obsolete) The ground or floor.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- 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.
- (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- (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)
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (transitive) To deliver.
Adjective
land (not comparable)
- Of or relating to land.
- Residing or growing on land.
Etymology 2
From Old English hland.
Noun
land (uncountable)
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