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land
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: l?nd, IPA(key): /lænd/, [?e??nd]
- Rhymes: -ænd
Etymology 1
From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land? (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“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 ???? (l?do), from Proto-Slavic *l?da (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).
Noun
land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- Most insects live on land.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
- There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
- A country or region.
- They come from a faraway land.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
- (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.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (Irish English, colloquial) A shock or fright.
- He got an awful land when the police arrived.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- 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.
- 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record (page 72)
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
- (obsolete) The ground or floor.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- 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.
- (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
- (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
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Translations
Verb
land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)
- (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- The plane is about to land.
- (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- 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.
- 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:
- (intransitive) To come into rest.
- (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
- (transitive) To bring to land.
- It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
- Use the net to land the fish.
- (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
- (transitive) To deliver. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.
- Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old English hland.
Noun
land (uncountable)
- lant; urine
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]
Noun
land (plural lande)
- country; nation
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lan?/, [lan?]
- Rhymes: -and
Etymology 1
From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, cognate with English land, German Land.
Noun
land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)
- country (a geographical area that is politically independent)
- Synonyms: stat, nation
- (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
- land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
- (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise
Usage notes
In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.
Inflection
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
land
- imperative of lande
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nt/
- Hyphenation: land
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Noun
land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)
- land; country
- land (part of Earth not covered by water)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: land
- ? Sranan Tongo: lanti
Etymology 2
Verb
land
- first-person singular present indicative of landen
- imperative of landen
Elfdalian
Etymology
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.
Noun
land n
- country; nation
Declension
Faroese
Etymology 1
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Noun
land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)
- land
- coast
- country, nation
- ground, soil
- the state
Declension
Related terms
- landa
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?, from Proto-Indo-European *kl?n- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).
Noun
land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)
- (uncountable) urine
Declension
Gothic
Romanization
land
- Romanization of ????????????????
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lant/
- Rhymes: -ant
Noun
land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)
- (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
- (countable) country
- (uncountable) countryside, country
- (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
- (countable) tracts of land, an estate
Declension
Derived terms
Middle English
Noun
land
- Alternative form of lond
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?n?/
- Rhymes: -?n?
Etymology 1
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Noun
land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)
- country
- land
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
land
- imperative of lande
References
- “land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?n?/, /l?nd/ (example of pronunciation)
Etymology 1
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.
Noun
land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)
- country
- Noreg er eit land i nord.
- Norway is a country in the north.
- Noreg er eit land i nord.
- land
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?.
Noun
land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)
- urine from livestock
References
- “land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.
Noun
land n (genitive lanz, plural land)
- land
- 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.
- Mæth logh skal land byggæs.
- With law shall land be built.
- Mæth logh skal land byggæs.
- 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.
Declension
Descendants
- Danish: land
Old English
Alternative forms
- lond, lænd
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant (Dutch land), Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nd/
Noun
land n
- land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
- a country
- region within a country: district, province
- the country, countryside
- owned or tilled land, an estate
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- belandian (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
- belendan (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
- ?elandian (“to land, to become land”)
- ?elendan (“to near, land, or come into lands as wealth”)
- lendan (“to come to land”)
Descendants
- Middle English: lond
- English: land
- Scots: laund, land
- Yola: lhoan, lone
References
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “land”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Old Irish
Noun
land ?
- Alternative spelling of lann
Mutation
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic ???????????????? (land).
Noun
land n (genitive lands, plural l?nd)
- land
Declension
Descendants
- Icelandic: land
- Faroese: land
- Norn: land
- Norwegian: land
- Old Swedish: land
- Elfdalian: land
- Swedish: land
- Old Danish: land
- Danish: land
- Scanian: lann
- Gutnish: land, lande, landi
References
- land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
Etymology
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 ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nd/
Noun
land n
- land
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: lant
- Dutch Low Saxon: laand
- German Low German: Land
- Plautdietsch: Launt
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.
Noun
land n
- land
Declension
Descendants
- Elfdalian: land
- Swedish: land
Polish
Etymology
From German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lant/
Noun
land m inan
- Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
- (Pozna?) countryside (rural area)
- Synonyms: prowincja, wie?
Declension
Further reading
- land in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- land in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From German Land
Noun
land n (plural landuri)
- land (German and Austrian province)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From German Land.
Noun
land m (plural lands)
- one of the federal states of Germany
Further reading
- “land” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /land/, [l?an??d?], (colloquial) /lan/
- Rhymes: -and
Noun
land n
- a land, a country, a nation, a state
- (uncountable) land, ground, earth, territory; as opposed to sea or air
- (uncountable) land, countryside, earth, ground suitable for farming; as opposed to towns and cities
- a garden plot, short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground for growing vegetables, flowers, etc.
Declension
Synonyms
- (country): nation
- (neither sea nor air): backe, landbacke, mark
- (ground suitable for farming): mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)
Derived terms
References
- land in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Zealandic
Etymology
From Middle Dutch lant
Noun
land n (plural [please provide])
- land
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cornage
English
Etymology
From Latin corn? (“horn”).
Noun
cornage (countable and uncountable, plural cornages)
- A feudal tax levied on horned cattle.
- (law) An ancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.
Anagrams
- acrogen
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