land
Meanings
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- 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.
- 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.
- Realm, domain.
- The ground left unploughed between furrows.
- Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- A shock or fright.
- A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- To come into rest.
- To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- To bring to land.
- To capture or arrest.
- To acquire; to secure.
- To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
- To deliver.
- To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
- To go down well with an audience.
- lant; urine
- A surname from Middle English.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognates Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), Yola lhoan, lloan, loan, londe, lone (“land”), North Frisian loun, luin, lun, Lön, lönj, löön (“land”), Saterland Frisian Lound (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Limburgish Land, landj, Laïnt (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), Luxembourgish and German Land (“land, country, state”), Vilamovian łaond (“land”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lędo (“heath, wasteland”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).