land

Meaning

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 acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and 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. realm, domain.
7. The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
8. (colloquial) A shock or fright.
9. A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
10. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
11. The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
13. The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
14. 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.
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.
16. A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

earth

country

go ashore

solid ground

set ashore

come ashore

landed estate

landed property

commonwealth

open country

plot of land

by land

cultivated land

good things of life

jump down

predial

put ashore

real state

sailing vessel

territory of a chief

sown field

the ground

soil dug out to form a grave

grant of land

go ashore from a ship

set on land

virgin land

land mass

shoot-down

dryland

land-on

lunarite

terminal area

draw up alongside

fal

go to the dogsl

infertile land

truncated edge

foot face

rifling rib

material possessions

address

agricultural land

collide with

crash into

hitch on

hook on

move into

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lænd/

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”), 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 лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lęda (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).