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• (General American) enPR: lănd, IPA^(key): /lænd/, [ɫeə̯nd]

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• Rhymes: -ænd

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), 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”).

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

   Most insects live on land.

2. 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.

3. A country or region.

   They come from a faraway land.

4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

   wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes

6. (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.

7. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
8. (Irish English, colloquial) A shock or fright.

   He got an awful land when the police arrived.

9. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
10. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

    Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:

      her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate

13. (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?)

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.
    1. (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.

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15. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

   The plane is about to land.

2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
   • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:

     10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.

3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
4. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
5. (transitive) To bring to land.

   It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

   Use the net to land the fish.

   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     I'll undertake to land them on our coast.

6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.

7. (transitive) To deliver.

land (not comparable)

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1. Of or relating to land.
2. Residing or growing on land.

From Old English hland.

land (uncountable)

1. lant; urine

From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

• IPA^(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]

land (plural lande)

1. country; nation

• IPA^(key): /lanˀ/, [lanˀ]
• Rhymes: -and

From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, cognate with English land, German Land.

land n (singular definite Benwing2/landet, plural indefinite Benwing2/lande)

1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent)

   Synonyms: stat, nation

2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

land

1. imperative of lande

• IPA^(key): /lɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: land
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

1. land; country
2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)

• Afrikaans: land
• → Sranan Tongo: lanti

land

1. inflection of landen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

land n

1. country; nation

stem=strong ''a''-stem

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

1. land
2. coast
3. country, nation
4. ground, soil
5. the state

• landa

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą, from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

1. (uncountable) urine

land

1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

• IPA^(key): /lant/
• Rhymes: -ant

land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
2. (countable) country

   Japan er fallegt land.

   Japan is a beautiful country.

3. (uncountable) countryside, country

   Ég bý úti á landi.

   I live in the country.

4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate

   Ég á þetta land og allt sem er á því.

   I own this land and everything on it.

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land

1. Alternative form of lond

• IPA^(key): /lɑn/
• Rhymes: -ɑn

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

land n (definite singular Benwing2/landet, indefinite plural Benwing2/land, definite plural Benwing2/landa or Benwing2/landene)

1. country
2. land

land

1. imperative of lande

• “Benwing2/land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /lɑnː/, /lɑnd/

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

land n (definite singular Benwing2/landet, indefinite plural Benwing2/land, definite plural Benwing2/landa)

1. country

   Noreg er eit land i nord.

   Norway is a country in the north.

2. land

   Det var mangel på land for jordbruk.

   There was a lack of land for agriculture.

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą.

land n (definite singular Benwing2/landet, indefinite plural Benwing2/land, definite plural Benwing2/landa)

1. urine from livestock

• “Benwing2/land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

1. land
   • 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.

     Mæth logh skal land byggæs.

     With law shall land be built.

• Danish: land

• lond, lænd

From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant (Dutch land), Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *landā (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

• IPA^(key): /lɑnd/

land n

1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
2. a country
3. region within a country: district, province
4. the country, countryside
5. owned or tilled land, an estate

Strong a-stem: