Land

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1. Noun

Urine. See Lant.

2. Noun

The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

3. Noun

Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

4. Noun

Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

5. Noun

The inhabitants of a nation or people.

6. Noun

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

7. Noun

The ground or floor.

8. Noun

The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

9. Noun

Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

10. Noun

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.

11. Noun

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

12. Verb

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

13. Verb

To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

14. Verb

To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

15. Verb

To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.

16. Noun

extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
Vocabulary classified under Law

17. Noun

the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"
Vocabulary classified under Law

18. Noun

agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
Vocabulary classified under Economics

19. 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); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science

20. Noun

a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science

21. Noun

the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"
Vocabulary classified under Geography
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