land

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Noun

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.

Verb

1. To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
2. To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
3. To come into rest.
4. To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
5. To bring to land.
6. (informal) To capture or arrest.
7. To acquire; to secure.
8. (slang) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
9. (of a blow) To deliver.
10. (of a punch) To connect
11. To go down well with an audience.

Phát âm là (IPA)

/lænd/

Từ nguyên

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”).