| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | lae'nd |
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| Rhymes | ampersand, armband, backhand, and 86 more rhymes in aend at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land. |
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| Examples | "land vehicles" |
| Similar | onshore; overland |
| Contrary | sea; air |
| Meaning | Operating or living or growing on land. |
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| Synonyms | terrestrial |
| Contrary | aquatic; amphibious |
| Meaning | The land on which real estate is located. |
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| Examples | "he built the house on land leased from the city" |
| Narrower | farmstead; homestead; no man's land |
| Broader | real property, real estate, realty |
| Meaning | Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use). |
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| Examples | "the land had never been plowed" |
| Synonyms | ground, soil |
| Narrower | badlands; bottomland, bottom; coastland; cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth; overburden; permafrost; rangeland; turf, sod, sward, greensward; wetland |
| Broader | object, physical object |
| Meaning | The solid part of the earth's surface. |
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| Examples | "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land" |
| Synonyms | dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma |
| Part of | Earth, world, globe |
| Narrower | America, the Americas; archipelago; beachfront; cape, ness; coastal plain; floor; foreland; forest, woodland, timberland, timber; hills; island; isthmus; landmass; mainland; neck; oxbow; peninsula; plain, field, champaign; slash; wonderland |
| Broader | object, physical object |
| Verbs | land; land; land; land; land |
| Meaning | Territory over which rule or control is exercised. |
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| Examples | "he made it the law of the land" |
| Synonyms | domain, demesne |
| Part of | country, state, land |
| Narrower | archduchy; barony; duchy, dukedom; earldom; emirate; empire; fiefdom; grand duchy; viscounty; khnate; kingdom, realm; principality, princedom; Kingdom of God; sheikdom, sheikhdom; suzerainty |
| Broader | region |
| Meaning | The territory occupied by a nation. |
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| Examples | "he returned to the land of his birth" |
| Synonyms | country, state |
| Members | department; state, province |
| Parts | domain, demesne, land; midland |
| Narrower | banana republic; fatherland, homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, native land; buffer state, buffer country; kingdom; tax haven; European country, European nation; African country, African nation; Asian country, Asian nation; South American country, South American nation; North American country, North American nation; Antigua and Barbuda; Cape Verde, Republic of Cape Verde; Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon; Comoros, Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros; Cuba, Republic of Cuba; Haiti, Republic of Haiti; Dominican Republic; Jamaica; Barbados; Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus; Dominica, Commonwealth of Dominica; East Timor; Fiji, Republic of Fiji; Israel, State of Israel, Yisrael, Zion, Sion; Etruria; Australia, Commonwealth of Australia; Micronesia, Federated States of Micronesia, TT; Marshall Islands, Republic of the Marshall Islands; Tuvalu; Kiribati, Republic of Kiribati; Nauru, Republic of Nauru; Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Bahama Islands; sultanate; Burkina Faso, Upper Volta; Indonesia, Republic of Indonesia, Dutch East Indies; Grenada; Maldives, Republic of Maldives; Malta, Republic of Malta; Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius; New Zealand; Palau, Republic of Palau, TT; Philippines, Republic of the Philippines; Saint Kitts and Nevis, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Christopher-Nevis, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia, St. Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Samoa, Independent State of Samoa, Western Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo; Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Sao Tome e Principe, Sao Thome e Principe, St. Thomas and Principe; Seychelles, Republic of Seychelles; Solomon Islands; Rus; Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR; Russia, Russian Federation; Ukraine, Ukrayina; Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Turkmen, Turkmenia; Tonga, Kingdom of Tonga, Friendly Islands; Turkey, Republic of Turkey; Vanuatu, Republic of Vanuatu, New Hebrides |
| Broader | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division |
| Meaning | A domain in which something is dominant. |
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| Examples | "a land of make-believe" |
| Synonyms | kingdom, realm |
| Narrower | lotusland, lotus land |
| Broader | sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena |
| Meaning | Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use. |
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| Examples | "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" |
| Synonyms | estate, landed estate, acres, demesne |
| Narrower | freehold; glebe; leasehold; smallholding; homestead; fief, feoff; barony; countryseat; Crown land; manor; seigneury, seigniory, signory; hacienda; plantation; entail |
| Broader | real property, real estate, realty |
| Meaning | The people who live in a nation or country. |
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| Synonyms | nation, country, a people |
| Members | national, subject |
| Narrower | Dutch, Dutch people; British, British people, the British, Brits; English, English people, the English; Irish, Irish people, the Irish; French, French people; Spanish, Spanish people; Swiss, Swiss people, the Swiss |
| Broader | people |
| Meaning | A politically organized body of people under a single government. |
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| Examples | "an industrialized land" |
| Synonyms | state, nation, country, commonwealth, res publica, body politic |
| Parts | estate, estate of the realm |
| Narrower | Dominion; Reich; rogue state, renegade state, rogue nation; suzerain; sea power; world power, major power, great power, power, superpower; city state; ally |
| Broader | political unit |
| Meaning | United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991). |
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| Synonyms | Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land |
| Broader | industrialist; inventor, discoverer, artificer |
| Meaning | Working the land as an occupation or way of life. |
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| Examples | "there's no work on the land any more" |
| Synonyms | farming |
| Broader | occupation, business, job, line of work, line |
| Meaning | Reach or come to rest. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Model | The airplane is sure to land |
| Examples | "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" |
| Synonyms | set down |
| Caused by | land, put down, bring down |
| Narrower | alight, light, perch; force-land; beach; port; disembark, debark, set down; touch down; undershoot; belly-land; crash land |
| Broader | arrive, get, come |
| Nouns | land; lander; landing |
| Meaning | Cause to come to the ground. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely" |
| Synonyms | put down, bring down |
| Category | air travel, aviation, air |
| Cause to | land, set down |
| Broader | arrive, get, come |
| Nouns | land; landing |
| Meaning | Bring into a different state. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "this may land you in jail" |
| Synonyms | bring |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Meaning | Bring ashore. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
| Narrower | ground, run aground |
| Broader | bring, convey, take |
| Nouns | landing; land |
| Meaning | Deliver (a blow). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "He landed several blows on his opponent's head" |
| Broader | deliver, drive home |
| Meaning | Arrive on shore. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" |
| Synonyms | set ashore, shore |
| Broader | arrive, get, come |
| Nouns | landing; land |
| Meaning | Shoot at and force to come down. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" |
| Synonyms | down, shoot down |
| Nouns | land |