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Definitions of land:

noun: the solid part of the earth's surface
Example: "The plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"
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)
Example: "The land had never been plowed"
noun: United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)
noun: the land on which real estate is located
Example: "He built the house on land leased from the city"
noun: working the land as an occupation or way of life
Example: "There's no work on the land any more"
noun: the people who live in a nation or country
noun: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Example: "The family owned a large estate on Long Island"
noun: a domain in which something is dominant
Example: "A land of make-believe"
noun: the territory occupied by a nation
Example: "He returned to the land of his birth"
noun: territory over which rule or control is exercised
Example: "He made it the law of the land"
noun: a politically organized body of people under a single government
Example: "An industrialized land"
verb: bring ashore
Example: "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
verb: deliver (a blow)
Example: "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
verb: reach or come to rest
Example: "The bird landed on the highest branch"
verb: cause to come to the ground
Example: "The pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
verb: arrive on shore
Example: "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
verb: bring into a different state
Example: "This may land you in jail"
verb: shoot at and force to come down
Example: "The enemy landed several of our aircraft"
name: A surname (common: 1 in 11111 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1358)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to land: (871 results)
Synonyms:
acres, a people, body politic, bring, bring down, commonwealth, country, demesne, domain, down, dry land, earth, estate, farming, ground, kingdom, landed estate, nation, nationality, put down, realm, res publica, set ashore, set down, shoot down, shore, soil, solid ground, state, terra firma, terrestrial

Contains:
estate of the realm, midland

Part of:
globe, world

More general:
administrative district, administrative division, alter, area, arena, arrive, business, change, come, deliver, english setter, field, get, line, line of work, object, occupation, orbit, people, physical object, political unit, real estate, real property, realty, region, sphere, territorial division

More specific:
african country, african nation, alight, ally, america, antigua and barbuda, archduchy, archipelago, asian country, asian nation, australia, badlands, bahama islands, bahamas, barony, beach, belly-land, bottom, bottomland, british, british people, brits, buffer country, buffer state, burkina faso, cape, cape verde, ceylon, champaign, city state, coastal plain, coastland, commonwealth of australia, comoros, country of origin, countryseat, crash land, crown land, cuba, cultivated land, cyprus, debark, disembark, dominica, dominican republic, duchy, dukedom, dutch east indies, earldom, emirate, empire, english, english people, entail, european country, european nation, farmstead, fatherland, feoff, fief, fiji, floor, force-land, foreland, forest, freehold, french, french people, friendly islands, glebe, grand duchy, great power, greensward, grenada, hacienda, haiti, hills, homeland, homestead, iceland, indonesia, irish, irish people, island, israel, isthmus, jamaica, kingdom of god, kiribati, landmass, leasehold, light, mainland, major power, maldives, malta, manor, marshall islands, mauritius, mother country, motherland, native land, nauru, neck, ness, new hebrides, new zealand, north american country, north american nation, overburden, oxbow, papua new guinea, peninsula, perch, permafrost, philippines, plain, plantation, power, princedom, principality, rangeland, reich, republic of the philippines, russia, saint christopher-nevis, saint kitts and nevis, saint lucia, saint vincent and the grenadines, samoa i sisifo, samoa, sao thome e principe, sao tome e principe, sea power, seigneury, seignory, seychelles, sheikdom, sheikhdom, signory, slash, smallholding, sod, solomon islands, south american country, south american nation, soviet union, spanish, spanish people, sri lanka, st. christopher-nevis, st. kitts and nevis, st. lucia, st. thomas and principe, st. vincent and the grenadines, superpower, suzerain, suzerainty, sward, swiss, swiss people, the americas, the british, the english, the french, the irish, the swiss, tillage, tilled land, tilth, timber, timberland, tonga, touch down, trinidad and tobago, turf, turkey, turkmenia, turkmenistan, turkmen, turkomen, tuvalu, ukraine, ukrayina, undershoot, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr, vanuatu, viscounty, western samoa, wetland, wonderland, woodland, world power, yisrael, zion

Often used in the same context:
arrived, began, birds, came, canada, canadian, castle, city, clock, creation, despair, dirt, disappear, disneyland, enemy, england, farmland, fields, flag, force, grassland, hill, imagination, information, ireland, lad, lan, landed, lands, landscape, lent, level, liberty, lines, listening, lord, maryland, mountains, north, ocean, owned, paradise, park, place, places, plains, plan, promises, reflection, rich, rock, rover, scotland, sea, seas, ships, shop, spin, states, station, territory, thee, train, trees, universe, upon, utopia, war, waste, wasteland, wide

Appears in the definition of:
., abraham, accretion, admiralty range, adscript, adscripted, afforest, afforestation, agriculture, agronomy, airfield, aleppa grass, alluvion, amphibian, amphibious, amphibious aircraft, amphibious assault, amphibious landing, amphibious operation, amphibious vehicle, anabas testudineus, annwfn, annwn, apollo program, apparently, approach pattern, arability, arawn, army, arrester, arrester hook, a. testudineus, athletic field, attorn, avulsion, baked, balloon, bangalore torpedo, bank, basin, battle of midway, battle of the bismarck sea, beachfront, bearded darnel, bench, berlin airlift, berm, bismarck sea, blessed, boatswain bird, bog plant, book of joshua, borough english, bouncing betty, brobdingnag, buccaneer, burial ground, burial site, burn off, burying ground, cadaster, cadastre, canal zone, cape of good hope, carnosaura, carry, cattle farm, cattle ranch, cemetery, cheat, chlorophyta, circus cyaneus, class reptilia, claymore, claymore mine, clear, clearance, cleared, clearing, climbing perch, cockaigne, columbiform bird, combined operation, common, commons, comprise, condemnation, condemned, connect, continuing trespass, contract of hazard, convoy, copyhold, course, crop, cropped, crusade, crusader, cultivate, cultivated, cultivation, curly-coated retriever, curtilage, darnel, dc, degrade, deluge, departure tax, deportation, desertification, develop, development, devote, dike, disk, dispossession, district of columbia, ditch, divide, division chlorophyta, domesday book, domesticate, dry, dry-shod, dump, dumpsite, dung, eared seal, earth's surface, easement, economic rent, enderby land, enfeoff, enfeoffment, erewhon, estate agent, eurasia, european tortoise, evergreen millet, eviction, exile, expanse, expatriation, exploitation, expropriated, fallow, falsely, family helicidae, family testudinidae, farm, fat, fee, fen, fenland, fertile crescent, flat, flat-coated retriever, flood, fly, flying field, foothills, foreign mission, frontage, garbage dump, genus horneophyton, geomorphology, giveaway, glade, gopher, gopher tortoise, gopher turtle, gopherus polypemus, government-in-exile, grant, graveyard, great bustard, green, greenbelt, green line, greenway, ground-effect machine, ground forces, ground rent, grounds, gulf, gulliver, harrow, heath, heathland, helicidae, helot, hen harrier, herbage, highland, holding pattern, homesteader, horizon, horneophyton, horst, house agent, houyhnhnms, hovercraft, husbandry, hydroplane, hyperborean, hypsography, hypsometer, hypsometry, ibrahim, icecap, ice cap, ice shelf, improved, inshore, inundation, irrigation, irrigation ditch, issue, jericho, johnson grass, jonah, joshua, josue, knight's service, lake, lakefront, landa, land agent, land development, landed gentry, lander, landfall, land grant, landholder, landholding, landing, landing field, landing place, landless, land line, landlocked, landlubber, landman, landmark, landowner, land reform, land resources, landscape architecture, landscaped, land site, landsman, landward, landwards, laputa, legal ouster, lespedeza cuneata, lespedeza sericea, life-giving, lilliput, located, locater, locator, lolium temulentum, look, lot, lower carboniferous, lower carboniferous period, lungless salamander, mackenzie, mangrove, manure, marine, marsh, marsh hawk, marshland, marsh plant, means grass, memorial park, mesne lord, mesophyte, mesophytic plant, mesopotamia, messuage, midway, military service, mine field, mire, mission, missionary post, missionary station, missippian period, mississippian, moor, moorland, morass, morphology, mount, mountain, mud flat, mudskipper, mudspringer, muniments, national park, native, naturalise, naturalize, necropolis, nester, no man's land, northern harrier, oceanfront, offshore, old witchgrass, old witch grass, onshore, open, order psilophytales, order pulmonata, otis tarda, outcrop, outcropping, overcrop, overland, panama canal zone, panhandle, panicum capillare, parcel, parcellation, parcel of land, parkland, pasturage, pattern, payoff, pelvic fin, peneplain, peneplane, pennsylvanian, pennsylvanian period, petrel, picnic area, picnic ground, piece of ground, piece of land, pirate, playing area, playing field, plethodont, ploughing, ploughland, plowing, plowland, pocket borough, pole, poor, port, pragmatic sanction, preemptor, pre-emptor, premises, private nuisance, proceeds, propagate, propertied, property owner, property-owning, psilophytales, pulmonata, quag, quagmire, quarter section, queen maud land, raising, ranch, range, range animal, rastafarianism, real, real estate agent, real estate broker, reallot, realtor, reclamation, redevelop, regular army, rehabilitation, rejuvenate, relinquished, renewal, rent, renter, replant, reptilia, restock, return, rhizophora mangle, ribbon, ridge, right of way, riparian, rock outcrop, rod, rubbish dump, runway, sale in gross, sam, sanguinary, sauropod, sauropod dinosaur, scientific agriculture, seal, sea level, seaplane, sea robber, sea rover, seaward, section, seize, seljuk, semiaquatic, serf, sericea lespedeza, shelf ice, shore duty, shoreline, shoulder, sight, silver, silvern, single tax, sir alexander mackenzie, site, ski-plane, socage, soil bank, sorghum halapense, sorghum halepense, spit, spread, squatter, squirearchy, strip cropping, subaquatic, subdivided, subdivider, subjugate, suborder carnosaura, surface, surface mail, surface-to-air missile, survey, surveyor, surveyor's level, swamp, swampland, swamp plant, take, takings, tame, tare, tellurian, telluric, tenant, tenant farmer, terrace, terrene, terrestrially, testudinidae, testudo graeca, thane, theater of war, theatre of war, thule, tidewater, till, tilled, tiller, tilling, tongue, topdress, tornado, tortoise, tract, tract house, tract housing, traffic pattern, transgress, transgression, transportation, trash dump, trespass, trespass quare clausum fregit, troop carrier, troop transport, tropicbird, tropic bird, tumble grass, turtle, twister, ultima thule, unbroken, uncleared, uncultivable, uncultivated, unimproved, united states army, untenanted, untilled, upheaval, upland, uplift, upper carboniferous, upper carboniferous period, upthrow, upthrust, usa, u. s. army, us army, vale, valley, ventral fin, victoria land, victoriously, village green, villein, villeinage, voyager, wasteyard, waste-yard, water parting, watershed, waterside, whereon, wildcat, wildcat well, witchgrass, witch grass, wooded, writ of right, yard, yeoman, yeomanry, yield

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