landing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlændɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ændɪŋ
• Hyphenation: land‧ing

• Audio (US)

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Noun

landing (plural landings)

1. An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.

   Antonym: takeoff

2. A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.

   Hyponym: fleet landing

3. A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 84:

     She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.

Usage notes

When referring to an arrival at a surface by an aircraft or other normally-controllable object, landing is generally reserved for cases in which the object is actually under (at least partial) control; an uncontrolled arrival at the surface by such an object is usually referred to as a crash or impact. In contrast, for uncontrollable objects (such as a meteoroid or artillery shell), landing is generally used (although impact is also usable).

Derived terms

Terms derived from landing

• airlanding
• belly landing
• crash landing
• deadstick landing
• emergency landing
• entry-descent-landing
• forced landing
• gear-up landing
• happy landings

• hard landing
• Knights Landing
• landing corridor
• Mays Landing
• pancake landing
• soft landing
• stick the landing

Translations

a coming to a surface, as of an airplane

• Arabic: هُبُوط‎ m (hubūṭ)
• Belarusian: прызямле́нне f (pryzjamljénnje)
• Bulgarian: приземяване n (prizemjavane)
• Catalan: aterratge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 著陸 (zh), 着陆 (zh) (zhuólù), 降落 (zh) (jiàngluò), 登陸 (zh), 登陆 (zh) (dēnglù)

• Czech: přistání (cs) n
• Dutch: landing (nl) f
• Finnish: laskeutuminen (fi)
• French: atterrissage (fr) m
• German: Landung (de) f
• Greek: προσγείωση (el) f (prosgeíosi)
• Hungarian: landolás, leszállás (hu), földet érés
• Italian: atterraggio (it) m
• Japanese: 上陸 (ja) (じょうりく, jōriku), 着陸 (ja) (ちゃくりく, chakuriku)

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نیشتن‎ (ku) (nîştin)

• Macedonian: слету́вање n (sletúvanje), приземју́вање n (prizemjúvanje), спу́штање n (spúštanje)
• Malay: pendaratan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landing m or f

  Nynorsk: landing f

• Polish: lądowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: aterragem (pt), aterrissagem (pt) f, pouso (pt) m
• Romanian: aterizare (ro)
• Russian: приземле́ние (ru) n (prizemlénije), поса́дка (ru) f (posádka)
• Spanish: aterrizaje (es) m
• Swedish: landning (sv) c
• Ukrainian: призе́млення n (pryzémlennja), поса́дка f (posádka)

a platform at the top of a flight of stairs

• Bulgarian: стълбищна площадка f (stǎlbištna ploštadka)
• Catalan: replà m
• Czech: podesta f
• Danish: repos (da) c, trappeafsats c
• Dutch: overloop (nl) m
• Finnish: tasanne (fi), porrastasanne
• French: palier (fr) m
• Galician: relanzo m
• German: Treppenabsatz (de) m
• Hungarian: pihenő (hu)
• Irish: léibheann cheann staighre m, ceann an staighre m
• Italian: pianerottolo (it) m, caposcala m, ballatoio (it) m, ripiano (it) m

• Japanese: 踊り場 (おどりば, odoriba)
• Macedonian: одмо́риште n (odmórište)
• Norman: tripselle dé la montée f (Jersey)
• Russian: площадка (ru) f (ploščadka)
• Spanish: rellano (es) m, descansillo (es) m
• Swedish: vilplan n, trappavsats (sv) c
• Tagalog: talurang
• Welsh: pen grisiau m

a place on a shoreline where a boat lands

• Bulgarian: място за дебаркиране (mjasto za debarkirane)
• Catalan: replà m
• Czech: přístaviště (cs) n
• Dutch: steiger (nl) m, aanlegplaats (nl) f
• German: Anlegeplatz (de) m, Landungsplatz (de) m, Anlandungsplatz m, Anlandungsstelle f
• Italian: imbarcadero (it) m
• Japanese: 船着き場 (funatsukiba)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: landgang m

  Nynorsk: landgang m

• Russian: пристань (ru) f (pristanʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: laimrig f
• Spanish: muelle (es) m, rellano (es), descansillo (es)
• Swedish: landgång (sv) c

Verb

landing

1. present participle of land

Anagrams

• Ingland, danglin'

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Etymology

From English landing, present participle of land (“to land, to touch down”), from Middle English land, lond, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: lan‧ding

Verb

landing

1. (aviation) to land; to descend to a surface, especially from the air to touch down
2. to come to be in a condition or situation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:landing.

Derived terms

• landinganan

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Dutch

Etymology

Derived from landen +‎ -ing. Compare English landing and German Landung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑn.dɪŋ/
• (Belgium)

  landing

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• Audio

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• Hyphenation: lan‧ding

Noun

landing f (plural landingen, diminutive landinkje n)

1. landing, touchdown of an airplane or any other airborne object
2. the act of disembarking a ship, particularly in military contexts

Derived terms

• landingsbaan
• landingsgestel
• maanlanding
• noodlanding
• tussenlanding

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English landing.

Noun

landing m (plural landings)

1. (Guernsey) landing

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From lande +‎ -ing

Noun

landing f or m (definite singular landinga or landingen, indefinite plural landinger, definite plural landingene)

1. a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)

Derived terms

• landingssted
• landingsstripe
• nødlanding

References

• “landing” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From lande +‎ -ing

Noun

landing f (definite singular landinga, indefinite plural landingar, definite plural landingane)

1. a landing (e.g. by an aircraft)

Derived terms

• landingsstripe
• naudlanding, nødlanding

References

• “landing” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.