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land
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Noun
  • agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
    • farming is a strenuous life
    • there's no work on the land any more
  • United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
  • a politically organized body of people under a single government
    • the state has elected a new president
    • African nations
    • students who had come to the nation's capitol
    • the country's largest manufacturer
    • an industrialized land
  • the people who live in a nation or country
    • a statement that sums up the nation's mood
    • the news was announced to the nation
    • the whole country worshipped him
  • extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
    • the family owned a large estate on Long Island
  • 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
  • the territory occupied by a nation
    • he returned to the land of his birth
    • he visited several European countries
  • 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
  • territory over which rule or control is exercised
    • his domain extended into Europe
    • he made it the law of the land
  • 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
  • the land on which real estate is located
    • he built the house on land leased from the city
Verb
  • shoot at and force to come down
    • the enemy landed several of our aircraft
  • arrive on shore
    • The ship landed in Pearl Harbor
  • deliver (a blow)
    • He landed several blows on his opponent's head
  • bring ashore
    • The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island
  • bring into a different state
    • this may land you in jail
  • cause to come to the ground
    • the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
  • reach or come to rest
    • The bird landed on the highest branch
    • The plane landed in Istanbul
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