Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word LAND
LAND
Definitions of LAND
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- A country or region.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- 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.
- lant; urine
- 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.
- (often, in combination) realm, domain.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- (obsolete) The ground or floor.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
- (transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.
- (intransitive) (of a punch) To connect
- (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.
- A Middle English surname from Middle English.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using LAND in a Sentence
- Most algae are aquatic organisms and lack many of the distinct cell and tissue types, such as stomata, xylem and phloem that are found in land plants.
- It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.
- Popularly referred to as the graveyard of empires, the land has witnessed numerous military campaigns, including those by the Persians, Alexander the Great, the Maurya Empire, Arab Muslims, the Mongols, the British, the Soviet Union, and a US-led coalition.
- It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south.
- An abstract of title lists all the owners of a piece of land, a house, or a building before it came into possession of the present owner.
- Arable land (from the , "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.
- The economy of American Samoa is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90% of the land is communally owned.
- Transport in Antarctica has transformed from explorers crossing the isolated remote area of Antarctica by foot to a more open era due to human technologies enabling more convenient and faster transport, predominantly by air and water, but also by land as well.
- It was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, designating the continent as a scientific preserve, establishing freedom of scientific investigation, and banning military activity; for the purposes of the treaty system, Antarctica is defined as all the land and ice shelves south of 60°S latitude.
- Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian monks and nuns.
- In some countries, such as France and China, the term "army", especially in its plural form "armies", has the broader meaning of armed forces as a whole, while retaining the colloquial sense of land forces.
- The Ainu are an Indigenous ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and the Tōhoku region of Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; although unconfirmed, they are also believed to have resided in the areas of Primorsky Krai, due to its proximity to Khabarovsk Krai.
- Apollo 13 (April 1117, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon.
- 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.
- Traditionally, in the Middle Ages, an acre was conceived of as the area of land that could be ploughed by one man using a team of eight oxen in one day.
- After participating in a rebellion against Henry II of England in 1168, he went to the Holy Land and settled in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.
- Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon.
- Apollo 12 (November 14–24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon.
- Apollo 14 (January 31February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands.
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