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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Adjective 1.5.1 Translations 2 Danish 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Usage notes 2.2.2 Inflection 2.3 Verb 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Derived terms 3.3 Verb 4 Faroese 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Declension 5 Icelandic 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 5.2.1 Declension 5.2.2 Derived terms 6 Norwegian 6.1 Noun 7 Old English 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Pronunciation 7.3 Noun 7.3.1 Derived terms 7.3.2 Descendants 8 Swedish 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Noun 8.2.1 Synonyms 8.2.2 Derived terms

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[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: lănd, IPA: /lænd/, SAMPA: /l{nd/
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  Rhymes: -ænd

[edit] Noun

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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to 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 Easton, Alexander, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, p 108, "Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.":

   • 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] Danish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landom, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“‘land, heath’”).

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

1. country (nation state (noun))
2. land

[edit] Usage notes

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-, -land.

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land

1. Imperative of lande.

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• IPA: /lɑnt/
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land n.

1. land, country

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landschap buitenland binnenland hoogland laagland thuisland

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land

1. The first person singular present tense of landen.
2. The imperative form of landen.

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[edit] Faroese

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land n.

1. land
2. coast
3. country, nation
4. ground, soil
5. "the state"

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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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[edit] Icelandic

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• IPA: [lant]

  Rhymes: -ant

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land n. (genitive singular lands, plural lönd)

1. land, earth
2. country

   Japan er fallegt land.

   Japan is a beautiful country.

3. (tract of) land, estate

   Ég á þetta land og allt sem er á því.

   I own this land and everything on it.

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n-s	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	land	landið	lönd	löndin
Accusative	land	landið	lönd	löndin
Dative	landi	landinu	löndum	löndunum
Genitive	lands	landsins	landa	landanna

[edit] Derived terms

• láta lönd og leið (+ accusative, to not give a damn about something)
• draga að landi (+ accusative, to eat somebody's leftovers)
• draga í land (to give in a little)
• eiga langt í land (of something- to have a long way to go/to be finished)
• föðurland
• landlægur m., landlæg f., landlægt n.
• sinn er siður í landi hverju
• útland
• með lögum skal land byggja
• leggja land undir fót
• Ísland
• Grænland
• Frakkland
• Finnland
• Svartfjallaland
• Þýskaland

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[edit] Norwegian

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land

1. country
2. land

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

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

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• IPA: /lɑnd/

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land n.

1. land

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• īġland n.
• landfruma m.

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• English: land

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land n.

Inflection for land 1-4	Singular		Plural
neuter	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	land	landet	länder	länderna
Genitive	lands	landets	länders	ländernas

Inflection for land 5	Singular		Plural
neuter	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	land	landet	land	landen
Genitive	lands	landets	lands	landens

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

[edit] Synonyms

country

• nation

neither sea nor air

• backe
• landbacke
• mark

ground suitable for farming

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

[edit] Derived terms

• landa