land

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
2. (countable, uncountable) Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
3. (countable, uncountable) A country or region.
4. (countable, uncountable) A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. (countable, uncountable) The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
6. (countable, in-compounds, often, uncountable) Realm, domain.
7. (countable, uncountable) The ground left unploughed between furrows.
8. (countable, uncountable) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
9. (Ireland, colloquial, countable, uncountable) A shock or fright.
10. (countable, uncountable) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
11. (countable, uncountable) On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
12. (countable, uncountable) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
13. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The ground or floor.
14. (countable, uncountable) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
15. (countable, uncountable) 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.
16. (countable, uncountable) 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.
17. (Scotland, countable, historical, uncountable) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Verb

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 on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
5. (transitive) To bring to land.
6. (informal, transitive) To capture or arrest.
7. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
8. (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
9. (transitive) To deliver.
10. (intransitive) To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
11. (figuratively, intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

Sinonieme

earth

country

ground

soil

nation

territory

region

state

field

alight

disembark

area

place

property

shore

domain

realm

dry land

dirt

world

🗺️

estate

farm

district

kingdom

terra firma

island

🏝️

terrain

descend

settle

go ashore

lot

real estate

plot

demesne

mainland

beach

🏖️

solid ground

thud

homeland

shoot down

terrestrial

zone

clay

down

acres

set down

debark

continental

arrive

farming

Vertalings

terre

Land

tierra

terra

land

pays

terra

país

landen

atterrir

terra

paese

país

terrain

terra

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/lænd/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: lond

Geërf van Old English: land

Verwante met Skots: laund

Verwante met Fries: lân

Verwante met Nederlands: land

Verwante met Duits: Land

Verwante met Noors: -

Verwante met Sweeds: land

Verwante met Yslands: land

Verwante met Old Irish: lann

Verwante met Wallies: llan

Verwante met Bretons: lann

Verwante met Kerkslawies: лѧдо

Verwante met Albanees: lëndinë

Geërf van Middle English: *land

Geërf van Old English: hland

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Middle English lond
English land
From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), North Frisian lun, Lön, lönj (“land”), Saterland Frisian Lound (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Limburgish Land, landj, Laïnt (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), Luxembourgish and German Land (“land, country, state”), Vilamovian łaond (“land”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lędo (“heath, wasteland”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Sinne

The region is known for its fertile land .

He continued the work with expanding the estate through the acquisition of more land .