land

Definitions of land in various dictionaries:

noun - the land on which real estate is located

noun - material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)

noun - territory over which rule or control is exercised

noun - the solid part of the earth's surface

noun - the territory occupied by a nation

noun - a domain in which something is dominant

noun - extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

noun - the people who live in a nation or country

noun - a politically organized body of people under a single government

noun - United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)

noun - agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life

verb - reach or come to rest

verb - cause to come to the ground

verb - bring into a different state

verb - bring ashore

verb - deliver (a blow)

verb - arrive on shore

verb - shoot at and force to come down

The solid ground of the earth.

Ground or soil: tilled the land.

A topographically or functionally distinct tract: desert land; prime building land.

A nation; a country.

The people of a nation, district, or region.

Public or private landed property; real estate.

An area or a realm: the land of make-believe; the land of television.

Law.

A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.

A landed estate.

The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

To bring to and unload on land: land cargo.

To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface: land an airplane smoothly; land a seaplane on a lake.

To cause to arrive in a place or condition: Civil disobedience will land you in jail.

To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.

To win; secure: land a big contract.

To deliver: landed a blow on his opponent’s head.

To come to shore: landed against the current with great difficulty.

To disembark: landed at a crowded dock.

To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface: The helicopter has landed.

To arrive in a place or condition: landed at the theater too late for the opening curtain.

To come to rest in a certain way or place: land on one’s feet.

A narrow island of southeast Sweden in the Baltic Sea.

verb - to set down upon land (solid ground)

LAND - Land, sometimes referred to as dry land, is the solid surface of Earth that is not permanently covered by water. The vast majority of human activity ...