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What is "land" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does land mean in English? Meaning of land definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "land" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "land": the land on which real estate is located

Noun

  • Meaning: the land on which real estate is located
  • Example: he built the house on land leased from the city
  • Synonyms: land
  • Hyponyms: farmstead homestead no man's land
  • Hypernyms: immovable real estate real property realty

    • Meaning of "land": reach or come to rest

    Verb

  • Meaning: reach or come to rest
  • Example: The bird landed on the highest branch The plane landed in Istanbul
  • Synonyms: land set down
  • Hyponyms: alight beach belly-land crash land debark disembark force-land light perch port set down touch down undershoot
  • Hypernyms: arrive come get

    • Meaning of "land": material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)

    Noun

  • Meaning: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
  • Example: the land had never been plowed good agricultural soil
  • Synonyms: ground land soil
  • Hyponyms: badlands bottom bottomland coastland cultivated land farmland greensward overburden permafrost ploughland plowland polder rangeland scablands sod sward tillage tilled land tilth turf wetland
  • Hypernyms: object physical object

    • Meaning of "land": cause to come to the ground

    Verb

  • Meaning: cause to come to the ground
  • Example: the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
  • Synonyms: bring down land put down
  • Hypernyms: arrive come get

    • Meaning of "land": territory over which rule or control is exercised

    Noun

  • Meaning: territory over which rule or control is exercised
  • Example: his domain extended into Europe he made it the law of the land
  • Synonyms: demesne domain land
  • Hyponyms: archduchy barony duchy dukedom earldom emirate empire fiefdom grand duchy imperium khanate kingdom princedom principality realm sheikdom sheikhdom suzerainty viscounty
  • Hypernyms: region

    • Meaning of "land": bring into a different state

    Verb

  • Meaning: bring into a different state
  • Example: this may land you in jail
  • Synonyms: bring land
  • Hypernyms: alter change modify
  • Also see: bring down bring up cut cut back cut down nurture parent raise rear reduce trim trim back trim down

    • Meaning of "land": the solid part of the earth's surface

    Noun

  • Meaning: the solid part of the earth's surface
  • Example: the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land the earth shook for several minutes he dropped the logs on the ground
  • Synonyms: dry land earth ground land solid ground terra firma
  • Hyponyms: archipelago beachfront cape champaign coastal plain field floor foreland forest island isthmus land mass landmass mainland neck ness oxbow peninsula plain slash timber timberland wonderland woodland
  • Hypernyms: object physical object
  • Instance Hyponyms: america

    • Meaning of "land": bring ashore

    Verb

  • Meaning: bring ashore
  • Example: The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island
  • Synonyms: land
  • Hyponyms: ground run aground strand
  • Hypernyms: bring convey take

    • Meaning of "land": the territory occupied by a nation

    Noun

  • Meaning: the territory occupied by a nation
  • Example: he returned to the land of his birth he visited several European countries
  • Synonyms: country land state
  • Hyponyms: african country african nation asian country asian nation banana republic buffer country buffer state country of origin european country european nation fatherland homeland kingdom mother country motherland native land north american country north american nation south american country south american nation sultanate tax haven
  • Hypernyms: administrative district administrative division territorial division
  • Instance Hyponyms: antigua and barbuda australia bahama islands bahamas barbados burkina faso cape verde ceylon commonwealth of australia commonwealth of dominica commonwealth of the bahamas comoros cuba cyprus democratic republic of sao tome and principe democratic socialist republic of sri lanka dominica dominican republic dutch east indies east timor etruria federal islamic republic of the comoros federated states of micronesia federation of saint kitts and nevis fiji friendly islands grenada haiti independent state of papua new guinea independent state of samoa indonesia israel jamaica kingdom of tonga kiribati maldives malta marshall islands mauritius micronesia nauru new hebrides new zealand palau papua new guinea philippines republic of cape verde republic of cuba republic of cyprus republic of fiji republic of haiti republic of indonesia republic of kiribati republic of maldives republic of malta republic of mauritius republic of nauru republic of palau republic of seychelles republic of the marshall islands republic of the philippines republic of trinidad and tobago republic of turkey republic of vanuatu rus russia russian federation saint christopher-nevis saint kitts and nevis saint lucia saint vincent and the grenadines samoa samoa i sisifo sao thome e principe sao tome and principe sao tome e principe seychelles sion solomon islands soviet union sri lanka st. christopher-nevis st. kitts and nevis st. lucia st. thomas and principe st. vincent and the grenadines state of israel tonga trinidad and tobago tt turkey turkmen turkmenia turkmenistan turkomen tuvalu ukraine ukrayina union of soviet socialist republics upper volta ussr vanuatu western samoa yisrael zion
  • Part Holonyms: demesne domain land midland
  • Member Holonyms: department province state

    • Meaning of "land": deliver (a blow)

    Verb

  • Meaning: deliver (a blow)
  • Example: He landed several blows on his opponent's head
  • Synonyms: land
  • Hypernyms: deliver drive home

    • Meaning of "land": a domain in which something is dominant

    Noun

  • Meaning: a domain in which something is dominant
  • Example: the untroubled kingdom of reason a land of make-believe the rise of the realm of cotton in the south
  • Synonyms: kingdom land realm
  • Hyponyms: lotus land lotusland
  • Hypernyms: area arena domain field orbit sphere

    • Meaning of "land": arrive on shore

    Verb

  • Meaning: arrive on shore
  • Example: The ship landed in Pearl Harbor
  • Synonyms: land set ashore shore
  • Hypernyms: arrive come get

    • Meaning of "land": extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

    Noun

  • Meaning: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
  • Example: the family owned a large estate on Long Island
  • Synonyms: acres demesne estate land landed estate
  • Hyponyms: barony countryseat crown land entail feoff fief freehold glebe hacienda homestead leasehold manor plantation seigneury seigniory signory smallholding
  • Hypernyms: immovable real estate real property realty

    • Meaning of "land": shoot at and force to come down

    Verb

  • Meaning: shoot at and force to come down
  • Example: the enemy landed several of our aircraft
  • Synonyms: down land shoot down

    • Meaning of "land": the people who live in a nation or country

    Noun

  • Meaning: the people who live in a nation or country
  • Example: a statement that sums up the nation's mood the news was announced to the nation the whole country worshipped him
  • Synonyms: country land nation
  • Hyponyms: british british people brits dutch dutch people english english people french french people irish irish people spanish spanish people swiss swiss people
  • Hypernyms: people
  • Member Holonyms: national subject

    • Meaning of "land": a politically organized body of people under a single government

    Noun

  • Meaning: a politically organized body of people under a single government
  • Example: the state has elected a new president African nations students who had come to the nation's capitol the country's largest manufacturer an industrialized land
  • Synonyms: body politic commonwealth country land nation res publica state
  • Hyponyms: ally city state city-state commonwealth country developing country dominion foreign country great power major power power reich renegade state rogue nation rogue state sea power superpower suzerain world power
  • Hypernyms: political entity political unit
  • Instance Hyponyms: eelam tamil eelam
  • Part Holonyms: estate estate of the realm the three estates

    • Meaning of "land": United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)

    Noun

  • Meaning: United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
  • Synonyms: din land edwin herbert land land
  • Instance Hypernyms: artificer discoverer industrialist inventor

    • Meaning of "land": agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life

    Noun

  • Meaning: agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
  • Example: farming is a strenuous life there's no work on the land any more
  • Synonyms: farming land
  • Hypernyms: business job line line of work occupation
  • Adjective: The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. Most insects live on land.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.A country or region. They come from a faraway land.A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming. wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes(often in combination) realm, domain. I'm going to Disneyland. Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.(Ireland, colloquial) A fright. He got an awful land when the police arrived.(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. Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.(obsolete) The ground or floor. Spenser Herself upon the land she did prostrate.Spenser Herself upon the land she did prostrate.(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing. (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)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. 2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16: The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet. 2012 November 15, Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes, “One Way to Get Off”, Elementary season 1 episode 7: The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16: The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.2012 November 15, Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes, “One Way to Get Off”, Elementary season 1 episode 7: The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.

    • Synonyms:

    estate, soil, terrain, home, earth, continent, ground, plot, district, area, field, homeland, territory, beach, province, parcel, countryside, acreage, tract, nation, country, region, ranch, shore, real estate, extent, expanse, mainland, sod, manor, dirt, stretch, sweep, purlieu, quarry, holding, farming, grounds, terra firma, farmland, loam, acres, tillage, realty, old sod, quinta, dock, settle, berth, alight, thump, pilot, debark, disembark, ditch, steer, ground, bring in, check in, come down, come in, get down, put down, take down, touch down, come ashore, come to berth, descend upon, drop anchor, flatten out, level off, light on, make land, put in, set down, set on deck, sit down, splash down, win, secure, pick up, have, get, procure, annex, gain, obtain, bring in,

    Antonyms:

    sky, sea, ascend, take off, fail, lose, forfeit, ascend, fail, lose, take off,

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