Dictionary entries for 'land'

Synonyms

land (lănd)

[Middle English, from Old English.]

noun

The solid ground of the earth.
1. Ground or soil: tilled the land.
2. A topographically or functionally distinct tract: desert land; prime building land.
1. A nation; a country.
2. The people of a nation, district, or region.
3. lands. Territorial possessions or property.
Public or private landed property; real estate.
Law
1. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.
2. A landed estate.
1. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.
2. Farming considered as a way of life: “The ‘back to the land movement’ began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy.” (Michael Baker)
An area or realm: the land of make-believe; the land of television.
The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

1. To bring to and unload on land: land cargo.
2. To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface: land an airplane smoothly; land a seaplane on a lake.
Informal To cause to arrive in a place or condition: Civil disobedience will land you in jail.
1. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.
2. Informal To win; secure: land a big contract.
Informal To deliver: landed a blow on his opponent's head.

1. To come to shore: landed against the current with great difficulty.
2. To disembark: landed at a crowded dock.
To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface: The helicopter has landed.
Informal To arrive in a place or condition: landed at the theater too late for the opening curtain; landed in trouble for being late.
To come to rest in a certain way or place: slipped and landed on his shoulder.