land

• enPR: lănd, IPA^(key): /lænd/
  • (US) IPA^(key): [ɫeə̯nd], [ɫɛə̯nd]

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  • (Canada) IPA^(key): [ɫɛə̯nd], [læ(ː)nd]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [lænd]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [leːnd], [lænd]
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): [land]
• Rhymes: -ænd

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lędo (“heath, wasteland”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

   Most insects live on land.

2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.

   There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

3. A country or region.

   They come from a faraway land.

4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

   wet land    good or bad land for growing potatoes

6. (often in combination) realm, domain.

   I'm going to Disneyland.

   Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.

8. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows. synonym ▲

   Synonym: furlong

10. (agriculture) Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing. synonym, coordinate terms ▲

    Synonym: furlong

    Coordinate terms: headland, furlong

11. (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.

    He got an awful land when the police arrived.

12. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
13. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits. quotations ▼
    • 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record, page 72:

      Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.

14. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

    Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

15. (obsolete) The ground or floor. quotations ▼
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:

      her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate

16. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.^[1]
17. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun. quotations ▼
       • 2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin, editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16:

         The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.

       • 2012 November 15, “One Way to Get Off”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller):

         The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.

18. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

   The plane is about to land.

2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle. quotations ▼
   • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:

     10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.

3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water. quotations ▼
   • 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development‎^[1], volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page 303, column 1:

     Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen. […] A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried to land at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders.

5. (transitive) To bring to land. quotations ▼

   It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

   Use the net to land the fish.

   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     I'll undertake to land them on our coast.

6. (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest. quotations ▼
   • 1920 June, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 151, column 3:

     `He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.'

7. (transitive) To acquire; to secure. quotations ▼

   She landed a job at the company.

   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.

   • 2024 May 1, “Network News: Danes plan fully automated trains”, in RAIL, number 1008, page 18:

     Siemens has landed a contract to upgrade signalling on the entire 170km (105-mile) S-Bane suburban network in Copenhagen to pave the way for fully automated trains.

8. (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

   Too ugly to ever land a chick

9. (transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

   If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match

10. (intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

    If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!

11. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience. quotations ▼

    Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.

    • 2023 January 13, Anonymous ("Jackal Comment"), 11:08 from the start, in CORRECTIONS Episode 68: Week of Monday, January 9 (Late Night with Seth Meyers)‎^[3], YouTube:

      We told an Amelia Earhart joke yesterday- did not go great with the audience. Someone wrote: "You can't be surprised when an Amelia Earhart joke doesn't land."

From Middle English *land, from Old English hland. More at lant.

land (uncountable)

1. lant; urine

• “land”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

• IPA^(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]

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land (plural lande)

1. country; nation

• IPA^(key): /lanˀ/, [lanˀ]
• Rhymes: -and

From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, cognate with English land, German Land.

land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent) synonyms ▲

   Synonyms: stat, nation

2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

land

1. imperative of lande

• (obsolete) landt, lant

• IPA^(key): /lɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: land
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

1. land, country, realm, territory quotations ▼
   • 1967, E. Rijpma & F. G. Schuringa, edited by Jan van Bakel, Nederlandse spraakkunst, 21st ed., p. 24, § 8 (also online at dbnl.org):

     In ons land werd door de Westgermaanse volksstammen het Nederduits (Nederfrankisch en Saksisch) en het Fries gesproken.
     Het Nederfrankisch wordt wel verdeeld in: (1) het Hollands-Frankisch (Hollands, Utrechts, Westveluws, Zeeuws, Westvlaams); (2) het Brabants-Frankisch (Westbetuws, Westbrabants, Antwerps, Kempens, Leuvens, Aalsters, Oostvlaams); (3) het Limburgs-Frankisch (Gelders-Limburgs, Limburgs, Oostbrabants).
     Het Saksisch (Gelders-Overijssels, Oostveluws, Drents, Gronings) wordt gesproken in het noordoosten van ons land, van Groningen tot de Oude Ijssel.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)
3. (Netherlands, Antilles) a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; the territorial government of an overseas constituent country quotations ▼
   • 2022 December 6, Oscar van Dam, John Samson, “Gerechtshof: lhbt’s mogen trouwen op Aruba en Curaçao [Appellate court: LGBT people allowed to marry in Aruba and Curaçao]”, in Caribisch Netwerk‎^[4], retrieved 14 December 2022:

     Het zijn twee verschillende uitspraken die vandaag door het gerechtshof achter elkaar zijn gedaan. Voor Aruba gaat het om het een zaak van Fundacion Orguyo Aruba en twee vrouwen tegen het Land Aruba. Voor Curaçao gaat het om een zaak van Human Rights Caribbean Foundation en twee vrouwen tegen het Land Curaçao.

     Today's rulings are two separate ones handed down by the appellate court back-to-back. For Aruba, it involves a case brought by Fundacion Orguyo Aruba and two women against the government of Aruba. For Curaçao, it involves a case brought by Human Rights Caribbean Foundation and two women against the government of Curaçao.

4. (history, chiefly in compounds) the territorial government or state authority in a Dutch colony or overseas territory in the West Indies

• Afrikaans: land
• Berbice Creole Dutch: alanda, landi
• Negerhollands: land, lant, lan
• Skepi Creole Dutch: land, lantta
• → Sranan Tongo: lanti (see there for further descendants)
• >? Javanese: ꦭꦤ꧀ (lan)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

land

1. inflection of landen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

land n

1. country; nation

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• IPA^(key): /lant/
• Rhymes: -ant

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

1. land
2. coast
3. country, nation
4. ground, soil
5. the state

• landa

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą, from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

1. (uncountable) urine

land m (plural lands or länder)

1. land (region of Germany or Austria)

land

1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

• IPA^(key): /lant/
• Rhymes: -ant

land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
2. (countable) country

   Japan er fallegt land.

   Japan is a beautiful country.

3. (uncountable) countryside, country

   Ég bý úti á landi.

   I live in the country.

4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate

   Ég á þetta land og allt sem er á því.

   I own this land and everything on it.

land

1. Alternative form of lond

• IPA^(key): /lɑnː/
• Rhymes: -ɑnː

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)

1. country
2. land

land

1. imperative of lande

• “land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• lainnj (eye dialect spelling)

• IPA^(key): /lanː/, /land/

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. country

   Noreg er eit land i nord.

   Norway is a country in the north.

2. land

   Det var mangel på land for jordbruk.

   There was a lack of land for agriculture.

3. coast, dry land

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą.

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. urine from livestock

• “land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

1. land quotations ▼
   • 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue:

     Mæth logh skal land byggæs.

     With law shall land be built.

• Danish: land

• lond, lænd

From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. See there for more.

• IPA^(key): /lɑnd/, /lɔnd/

land n

1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
2. a country
3. region within a country: district, province
4. the country, countryside
5. owned or tilled land, an estate

• Using the word land is the most common way to form country names. This can be done in one of two ways:
  • Prefixing the name of a people to the word land. Ex: Franca (“French person”) → Francland (“France”), Swēo (“Swede”) → Swēoland (“Sweden”), and *Unger (“a Hungarian”) → Ungerland (“Hungary”).
  • Prefacing land with the genitive plural form of a people, producing the literal meaning “land of ____ people.” Ex: Egypta land (“Egypt”, literally “land of the Egyptians”), Siġelhearwena land (“Ethiopia”, literally “land of the Ethiopians”).
• However, country names can also be formed other ways. For instance, words other than land are used: Dene (“a Dane”) → Denemearc (“Denmark”, literally “Dane borderland”). It is also very common to use the name of a people for the country they inhabit: On þām dagum wæs Alexander ġeboren on Crēcum swā swā miċel ȳst cōme ofer ealne middanġeard (“In those days, Alexander was born in Greece [lit. in the Greeks] like a great storm coming over the whole world”), Ymb twā ġēar þæs þe hē cōm of Francum, hē ġefōr (”Two years after he came from France [lit. from the Franks], he died”). In addition, country names are sometimes loaned directly from Latin: Arabia, Isrāhēl, Italia, Syria. Finally, some country names are simply idiomatic: Norþweġ (“Norway”, literally “north way”).
• Unlike most words, land undergoes i-umlaut when combined with the suffix -isċ: inlendisċ (“native”), uplendisċ (“rural”).

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: lond
  • English: land
  • Scots: laund, land
  • Yola: lhoan, lone

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “land”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

land ?

1. Alternative spelling of lann

From Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

land n (genitive lands, plural lǫnd)

1. land

• Icelandic: land
• Faroese: land
• Norn: land
• Norwegian Nynorsk: land
  • Russenorsk: лань (lanʹ)
• Old Swedish: land
  • Elfdalian: land
  • Swedish: land
• Old Danish: land
  • Danish: land
    • Norwegian Bokmål: land
  • Scanian: lann
• Old Gutnish: land
  • Gutnish: land, lande, landi

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “land”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-West Germanic *land. Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *landā (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

• IPA^(key): /lɑnd/

land n

1. land

• Middle Low German: lant
  • Low German: Land
    • Dutch Low Saxon: laand
    • German Low German: Land
  • Plautdietsch: Launt

Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

land n

1. land

• Elfdalian: land
• Swedish: land

Borrowed from German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlant/

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• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: land

land m inan

1. Land (federal state in Austria and Germany) synonym, coordinate terms ▲

   Synonym: kraj związkowy

   Coordinate terms: stan, kraj (“krai”)

2. (Poznań) countryside (rural area) synonyms ▲

   Synonyms: prowincja, wieś

• land in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• land in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from German Land.

land n (plural landuri)

1. land (German and Austrian province)

Borrowed from German Land.

land m (plural lands)

1. one of the federal states of Germany quotations ▼
   • 2020 January 29, “El coronavirus ya se transmite fuera de China y se teme por su afectación al Mobile”, in La Vanguardia‎^[5]:

     Alemania confirmó ayer los cuatro primeros casos de coronavirus de Wuhan en su territorio, todos pertenecientes a la misma empresa de componentes de automóvil del land alemán de Baviera.

     Germany yesterday confirmed the first four cases of Wuhan coronavirus on its territory, all belonging to the same automotive component company from the German land of Bavaria.

• “land”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

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• Rhymes: -and

land n

1. a country, a land (independent political entity)

   Sverige är ett land

   Sweden is a country

   länderna i EU

   the countries in the EU

   främmande länder

   foreign lands

   fjärran länder

   distant lands

• nation
• stat

land n

1. (uncountable) land (as opposed to sea)

   Om man inte har lust att vara på en båt så kan man vara på land istället

   If you don't feel like being on a boat, you can be on land instead

   land och hav

   land and sea

   ha land i sikte

   have land in sight

   Land i sikte!

   Land ahoy!

2. (usually in the definite) countryside, country quotations ▼

   Vi bor på landet

   We live in the countryside

   Vi är ute på landet

   We are out in the country

   livet på landet

   life in the countryside

   stad och land

   town and country

   laglöst land

   lawless land

   • 2007, Laser Inc, “Det var en gång en fågel [Once upon a time, there was a bird]”‎^[6]:

     Det var en gång en liten fågel. Ja, en fågel. Han bodde på landet, och Roger hette han. Han ville gärna leka med sina vänner, med sina vänner, men det fick inte han. Men denna historia slutar sorgligt, för Roger blev skjuten, skjuten i magen av gamle jägar'n [jägaren] Pär. Han ville hem och äta, äta en fågel med lite potäter, men Roger hann iväg.

     Once upon a time, there was a little bird. Yes, a bird. He lived in the countryside, and Roger was his name. He wanted to play with his friends ["He wanted gladly to play with his friends," in the sense of, "He wanted, with keenness, to play with his friends" – the translation skips the gärna as it doesn't make much difference to the meaning], with his friends, but [that – to play with his friends] he didn't get to. But this story ends sadly, because Roger was shot, shot in the stomach by old hunter Pär ["den gamle jägaren Pär" matches "the old hunter Pär" – skipping "den" makes "jägaren Pär" sound lexicalized]. He wanted to go home and eat, eat a bird with some potatoes, but Roger got away [in time].

See mark for some other senses of land.

• backe
• landsbygd
• mark
• på landbacken (“on land (emphasizing not at sea)”)

land n

1. a smaller piece of land for small-scale cultivation; a patch, a garden plot, etc.

   ett jordgubbsland

   a strawberry patch

   ett potatisland

   a potato patch

   påta i landet

   potter in the garden plot

• grönsaksland (“vegetable patch / plot”)
• trädgårdsland (“garden plot”)

• land in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• land in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• land in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Middle Dutch lant.

land n (plural [please provide])

1. land