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Middle English, from Old English land, lond (ground, soil, defined piece of land, country), from Proto-Germanic *landan, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (land, heath). Cognate with West Frisian lân, Dutch land, and German Land.

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land (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. Ground that is suitable for farming.
    Plant the potatoes in the land.
  6. (Ireland / colloquial) a fright.
    He got an awful land when the police arrived.
  7. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  8. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  9. The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

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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.
  6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
  7. (transitive) To deliver.

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land (not comparable)

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

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[edit] Etymology 1

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

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  • IPA: /lan/, [lanˀ]

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land n. (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

  1. country (nation state (noun))
  2. land
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In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-, -land.

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See lande (to land).

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  • IPA: /lan/, [lanˀ]

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land

  1. imperative of lande

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From land (country). Possibly influenced by proper nouns like English Disneyland and Danish Legoland. [from 1969]

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  • IPA: /-lan/, [-ˌlanˀ]

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*land n.

  1. (bound morpheme, only used as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise
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land n. (plural landen, diminutive landje)

  1. land, country

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land

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

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land n.

  1. land
  2. coast
  3. country, nation
  4. ground, soil
  5. "the state"
  6. urine (singular only)

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n8 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative land landið lond londini
Accusative land landið lond londini
Dative landi landinum londum londunum
Genitive lands landsins landa landanna

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land

  1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳

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land n. (genitive singular lands, 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, aestate
    Ég á þetta land og allt sem er á því.
    I own this land and everything on it.

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From Old Norse land.

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land n.

  1. country
  2. land

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  • land” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk DictionaryDokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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

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land n.

  1. land

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land n.

  1. land

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land n.

  1. Land, country, nation.
  2. (uncountable) land, as opposed to sea or air
  3. (uncountable) land; part of Earth not covered by sea
  4. (uncountable) land; ground suitable for farming
  5. short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground used for a hobby-based growing of vegetables, flowers, berries and other plants

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  • (ground suitable for farming): mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)

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