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.
Definitions
- noun. Urine. See Lant.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
- noun. The inhabitants of a nation or people.
- noun. The mainland, in distinction from islands.
- noun. The ground or floor.
- noun. The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
- noun. 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.
- transitive verb. To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
- transitive verb. To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
- transitive 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.
- intransitive verb. To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
- noun. agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
"farming is a strenuous life"
"there's no work on the land any more"
- noun. 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"
- noun. a politically organized body of people under a single government
"the state has elected a new president"
"African nations"
- noun. the territory occupied by a nation
"he returned to the land of his birth"
"he visited several European countries"
- noun. territory over which rule or control is exercised
"his domain extended into Europe"
"he made it the law of the land"
- noun. 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"
- 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)
"the land had never been plowed"
"good agricultural soil"
- noun. United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
- noun. extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
"the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
- noun. the land on which real estate is located
"he built the house on land leased from the city"
- noun. a domain in which something is dominant
"the untroubled kingdom of reason"
"a land of make-believe"
- verb. bring into a different state
"this may land you in jail"
- verb. reach or come to rest
"The bird landed on the highest branch"
"The plane landed in Istanbul"
- verb. cause to come to the ground
"the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
- verb. shoot at and force to come down
"the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
- verb. arrive on shore
"The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
- verb. bring ashore
"The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
- verb. deliver (a blow)
"He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
Synonyms
farming, country, nation, commonwealth, state, demesne, domain, earth, ground, soil, acres, estate, kingdom, realm, bring, down, shore
Common word forms
lands, landed, lander, landing, landless
Words from these letters
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