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land

noun

1 Lyme Park has 1323 acres of land | a campaign to ban fox hunting on publicly owned land:

grounds, ground, fields, open space, open area;

property, acres, acreage, estate, estate, lands, realty, real property, real estate, landholding, holding;

countryside;

unbuilt land, rural area, green area, green belt;

archaic demesne.

2 a small patch of fertile land:

soil, earth, loam, sod, dirt, clay, turf, topsoil, humus, marl.

3 (the land) so many people are leaving the land and going to work in the city:

the countryside, the country, rural areas, farmland, agricultural land.

4 Tunisia is a land of variety:

country, nation, state, nation state, fatherland, motherland, homeland, realm, kingdom, empire, republic, commonwealth, province, territory, district, region, area, domain.

5 the lookout sighted land at last:

terra firma, dry land, solid ground;

coast, coastline, shore.

▷antonyms sea.

verb

1 Allied troops had landed in France:

disembark, reach the shore, go ashore, debark, alight, get off;

arrive.

▷antonyms embark.

2 the ship landed at Le Havre:

berth, dock, moor, anchor, drop anchor, tie up, beach, put in, reach the shore, come in to land;

arrive.

▷antonyms put to sea, sail, depart.

3 their plane landed at Chicago airport:

touch down, alight, make a landing, come in to land, come down, come to rest, arrive.

▷antonyms take off.

4 a bird landed on the windowsill:

perch, settle, come down, come to rest, alight.

▷antonyms fly off.

5 landing a plane was no problem for me:

bring down, make a landing, put down, take down.

6 informal Nick had landed the job of editor:

obtain, get, acquire, procure, secure, be appointed to, gain, net, win, earn, achieve, attain, bag, come by, draw, pick up;

carry off, catch, capture, grab, hook;

informal get/lay one's hands on, get hold of, get one's mitts on, score, swing, nab, collar, pull down;

British, informal blag.

7 informal that habit landed her in juvenile custody:

bring, lead, drive, cause to be in, cause to arrive in.

8 informal she hoped he wouldn't land her with the bill:

burden, saddle, encumber, trouble, tax, load;

informal dump something on someone;

British, informal lumber.

9 informal John tried to land a punch on Brian's chin:

inflict, deal, deliver, administer, deposit, dispense, give, catch, mete out;

informal fetch.

□ land up

many of them land up in prison:

finish up, arrive, find oneself, end up, turn up, come, go, appear;

informal wind up, fetch up, show up, roll up, blow in.

word links	land
terrestrial relating to land