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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, 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 acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and 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.

8. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows.

   Synonym: furlong

10. (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

    Synonym: furlong

    Coordinate terms: headland, furlong

11. (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.

    He got an awful land when the police arrived.

12. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
13. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
    • 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record, page 72:

      Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.

14. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

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

15. (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

16. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.^[1]
17. 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.

       • 2012 November 15, “One Way to Get Off”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller):

         The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.

18. (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 on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
   • 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development‎^[1], volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 303, column 1:

     Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen. […] A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried to land at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders.

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, informal) To capture or arrest.
   • 1920 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 151, column 3:

     `He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.'

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

     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.

   • 2024 May 1, “Network News: Danes plan fully automated trains”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 18:

     Siemens has landed a contract to upgrade signalling on the entire 170km (105-mile) S-Bane suburban network in Copenhagen to pave the way for fully automated trains.

8. (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

   Too ugly to ever land a chick

9. (transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

   If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match

10. (intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

    If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!

11. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

    Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.

    • 2023 January 13, Anonymous ("Jackal Comment"), 11:08 from the start, in CORRECTIONS Episode 68: Week of Monday, January 9 (Late Night with Seth Meyers)‎^[3], YouTube:

      We told an Amelia Earhart joke yesterday- did not go great with the audience. Someone wrote: "You can't be surprised when an Amelia Earhart joke doesn't land."

From Middle English *land, from Old English hland. More at lant.

land (uncountable)

1. lant; urine

• “land”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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

• IPA^(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]

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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 landet, plural indefinite 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-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

1. land; country
   • 1967, E. Rijpma & F. G. Schuringa, edited by Jan van Bakel, Nederlandse spraakkunst, 21st ed., p. 24, § 8 (also online at dbnl.org):

     In ons land werd door de Westgermaanse volksstammen het Nederduits (Nederfrankisch en Saksisch) en het Fries gesproken.
     Het Nederfrankisch wordt wel verdeeld in: (1) het Hollands-Frankisch (Hollands, Utrechts, Westveluws, Zeeuws, Westvlaams); (2) het Brabants-Frankisch (Westbetuws, Westbrabants, Antwerps, Kempens, Leuvens, Aalsters, Oostvlaams); (3) het Limburgs-Frankisch (Gelders-Limburgs, Limburgs, Oostbrabants).
     Het Saksisch (Gelders-Overijssels, Oostveluws, Drents, Gronings) wordt gesproken in het noordoosten van ons land, van Groningen tot de Oude Ijssel.

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2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)
3. (Netherlands, Antilles) a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; the territorial government of an overseas constituent country
   • 2022 December 6, Oscar van Dam, John Samson, “Gerechtshof: lhbt’s mogen trouwen op Aruba en Curaçao [Appellate court: LGBT people allowed to marry in Aruba and Curaçao]”, in Caribisch Netwerk‎^[4], retrieved 14 December 2022:

     Het zijn twee verschillende uitspraken die vandaag door het gerechtshof achter elkaar zijn gedaan. Voor Aruba gaat het om het een zaak van Fundacion Orguyo Aruba en twee vrouwen tegen het Land Aruba. Voor Curaçao gaat het om een zaak van Human Rights Caribbean Foundation en twee vrouwen tegen het Land Curaçao.

     Today's rulings are two separate ones handed down by the appellate court back-to-back. For Aruba, it involves a case brought by Fundacion Orguyo Aruba and two women against the government of Aruba. For Curaçao, it involves a case brought by Human Rights Caribbean Foundation and two women against the government of Curaçao.

4. (history, chiefly in compounds) the territorial government or state authority in a Dutch colony or overseas territory in the West Indies

• Afrikaans: land
• Berbice Creole Dutch: alanda, landi
• Negerhollands: land, lant, lan
• Skepi Creole Dutch: land, lantta
• → Sranan Tongo: lanti (see there for further descendants)
• >? Javanese: ꦭꦤ꧀ (lan)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

land

1. inflection of landen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. 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

• IPA^(key): /lant/
• Rhymes: -ant

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 m (plural lands or länder)

1. land (region of Germany or Austria)

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.