Dictionary Entry
land
land is a 4-letter English word with 33 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Urine. See Lant. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 33 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Urine. See Lant.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
- 5noun
The inhabitants of a nation or people.
- 6noun
The mainland, in distinction from islands.
- 7noun
The ground or floor.
- 8noun
The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
- 9noun
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.
- 10noun
The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
- 11noun
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.
- 12transitive verb
To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
- 13transitive verb
To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
- 14transitive 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.
- 15intransitive verb
To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
- 16noun
agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
"farming is a strenuous life"
"there's no work on the land any more"
Synonyms
- 17noun
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"
- 18noun
a politically organized body of people under a single government
"the state has elected a new president"
"African nations"
Synonyms
- 19noun
the territory occupied by a nation
"he returned to the land of his birth"
"he visited several European countries"
- 20noun
territory over which rule or control is exercised
"his domain extended into Europe"
"he made it the law of the land"
- 21noun
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"
- 22noun
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"
- 23noun
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
- 24noun
extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
"the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
- 25noun
the land on which real estate is located
"he built the house on land leased from the city"
- 26noun
a domain in which something is dominant
"the untroubled kingdom of reason"
"a land of make-believe"
- 27verb
bring into a different state
"this may land you in jail"
Synonyms
- 28verb
reach or come to rest
"The bird landed on the highest branch"
"The plane landed in Istanbul"
- 29verb
cause to come to the ground
"the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
- 30verb
shoot at and force to come down
"the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
Synonyms
- 31verb
arrive on shore
"The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
Synonyms
- 32verb
bring ashore
"The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
- 33verb
deliver (a blow)
"He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
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