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land¹

  • /lænd/
  • [lænd] UK
  • [land] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ɫänd] Scotland
  • [ɫeə̯nd] ~ [ɫɛə̯nd] US
  • [ɫɛə̯nd] Canada
  • [læ(ː)nd] Canada
  • [læːnd] ~ [lɛːnd] ~ [leːnd] Australia
  • [lɛnd] New Zealand

Rhymes with -ænd

Where it comes from

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”).

Cognates

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), Yola lhoan, lloan, loan, londe, lone (“land”), North Frisian loun, luin, lun, Lön, lönj, löön (“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”).

noun lands

  1. countable, uncountable The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. Most insects live on land.
  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. There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
  3. countable, uncountable A country or region. They come from a faraway land.
  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. wet land
  6. countable, in compounds, often, uncountable Realm, domain. I'm going to Disneyland.
  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. He got an awful land when the police arrived.
  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. 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.
  12. countable, uncountable The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc. Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
  13. countable, obsolete, uncountable The ground or floor. her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate
  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 The space between the rifling grooves in a gun. 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.
  17. Scotland, countable, historical, uncountable A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

verb lands · landing · 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. 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. 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.
  6. informal, transitive To capture or arrest. `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. She landed a job at the company.
  8. slang, transitive To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score. Too ugly to ever land a chick.
  9. transitive To deliver (a blow). If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match.
  10. intransitive To connect (to arrive at an intended target). If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!
  11. figuratively, intransitive To go down well with an audience. Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.

land²

  • /lænd/
  • [lænd] UK
  • [land] British, Southern, Standard
  • [ɫänd] Scotland
  • [ɫeə̯nd] ~ [ɫɛə̯nd] US
  • [ɫɛə̯nd] Canada
  • [læ(ː)nd] Canada
  • [læːnd] ~ [lɛːnd] ~ [leːnd] Australia
  • [lɛnd] New Zealand

Rhymes with -ænd

Where it comes from

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

noun

  1. uncountable lant; urine

Land³

Rhymes with -ænd

proper noun

  1. A surname from Middle English. After the success of Secret of Monkey Island (1990), composer Michael Land longed for a more flexible system to integrate his music into a game.

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