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See also: Land, länd, lǟnd, and -land
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Etymology 1

    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”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

    Noun

    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.
    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.
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    Verb

    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, 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.
    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:
        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)‎, 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."
    Derived terms
    (terms derived from the verb land):
    Translations
    to arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water

    Etymology 2

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

    Noun

    land (uncountable)

    1. lant; urine

    References

    1. [1]
      Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Land”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.

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