land

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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  farming , Land , Din Land , Edwin Herbert Land , state , nation , country , commonwealth , res publica , body politic , estate , landed estate , acres , demesne , kingdom , realm , dry land , earth , ground , solid ground , terra firma , domain , soil , down , shoot down , set ashore , shore , bring , put down