landslide

English

Etymology

From land +‎ slide.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.slaɪd/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

landslide (plural landslides)

1. A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
2. A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.

   The candidate won by a landslide.

Synonyms

• (natural disaster): earthfall, landslip

Translations

natural disaster

• Arabic: اِنْهِيَار أَرْضِيّ‎ m (inhiyār ʾarḍiyy)
• Catalan: ensulsiada
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山崩 (zh) (shānbēng), 滑坡 (zh) (huápō), 地滑 (zh) (dìhuá), 塌方 (zh) (tāfāng)

• Danish: bjergskred n, jordskred (da) n
• Dutch: lawine (nl) m, f, aardverschuiving (nl)
• Esperanto: terŝoviĝo
• Finnish: maanvyöry, maanvyörymä
• French: glissement de terrain (fr) m
• Georgian: მეწყერი (mec̣q̇eri)
• German: Erdrutsch (de) m
• Greek: κατολίσθηση (el) f (katolísthisi)
• Hungarian: földcsuszamlás (hu)
• Indonesian: tanah longsor (id)
• Italian: frana (it) f, smottamento (it) f, slavina (it) f
• Japanese: 地滑り (じすべり, ji-suberi), 山崩れ (やまくずれ, yama-kuzure), 山津波 (やまつなみ, yama-tsunami), 土砂崩れ (どしゃくずれ, dosha-kuzure)
• Korean: 산사태 (ko) (sansatae) (山沙汰 (ko))

• Ladin: roa f
• Malay: tanah runtuh
• Maori: horo, horowhenua
• Norwegian: steinras n

  Bokmål: jordras n, jordskred n

  Nynorsk: jordras n, jordskred n

• Pohnpeian: engk
• Polish: osuwisko (pl) n
• Portuguese: deslizamento m, desabamento m, derrocada f
• Quechua: lluqlla
• Romanian: alunecare de teren f
• Russian: о́ползень (ru) m (ópolzenʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: odron (sh) m, osulina (sh) f
• Slovene: plaz (sl) m
• Spanish: corrimiento de tierra m
• Swedish: jordskred (sv) n
• Tagalog: guho ng lupa, guhunlupa

vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority

• Finnish: äänivyöry (fi)
• German: erdrutschartiger Sieg, überwältigender Sieg

• Japanese: 地滑り的勝利 (じすべりてきしょうり, jisuberi-teki shōri)

See also

• (natural disaster): avalanche, earthquake, mudslide
• (politics): shoo-in

Verb

landslide (third-person singular simple present landslides, present participle landsliding, simple past and past participle landslid)

1. To undergo a landslide.
   • 1921, The Illustrated London News (volume 158, page 356)

     So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.