land

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

   “Most insects live on land.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.

   “There are 50 acres of land in this estate.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A country or region.

   “They come from a faraway land.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. (countable, uncountable)The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

   “wet land”

   “good or bad land for growing potatoes”

6. (countable, in-compounds, often, uncountable)Realm, domain.

   “I'm going to Disneyland.”

   “Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.”

7. (countable, uncountable)The ground left unploughed between furrows.
8. (countable, uncountable)Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
9. (Ireland, colloquial, countable, uncountable)A shock or fright.

   “He got an awful land when the police arrived.”

10. (countable, uncountable)A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
11. (countable, uncountable)On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

    “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.”

12. (countable, uncountable)The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

    “Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.”

13. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The ground or floor.

    “her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate”

14. (countable, uncountable)The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
15. (countable, uncountable)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.
16. (countable, uncountable)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.

    “The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.”

    “The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.”

17. (Scotland, countable, historical, uncountable)A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
18. (uncountable)lant; urine

verb

1. (intransitive)To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

   “The plane is about to land.”

2. (dated)To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

   “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.”

3. (intransitive)To come into rest.
4. (intransitive)To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

   “Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen.[…]A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried to land at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders.”

5. (transitive)To bring to land.

   “It can be tricky to land a helicopter.”

   “Use the net to land the fish.”

   “I'll undertake to land them on our coast.”

6. (informal, transitive)To capture or arrest.

   “`He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.'”

7. (transitive)To acquire; to secure.

   “She landed a job at the company.”

   “As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.”

   “Siemens has landed a contract to upgrade signalling on the entire 170km (105-mile) S-Bane suburban network in Copenhagen to pave the way for fully automated trains.”

   “At 30, I landed my first real foothold: an assistant job at a major publishing house.”

8. (slang, transitive)To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.

   “Too ugly to ever land a chick.”

9. (transitive)To deliver.

   “If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match.”

10. (intransitive)To connect (to arrive at an intended target).

    “If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!”

    “Vice President J. D. Vance has lashed out at [Gavin] Newsom, telling Fox that the Californian’s attacks aren’t landing, because his trolling “ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump’s political success, which is that he’s authentic”; […].”

11. (figuratively, intransitive)To go down well with an audience.

    “Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.”

    “We told an Amelia Earhart joke yesterday—did not go great with the audience. Someone wrote: "You can't be surprised when an Amelia Earhart joke doesn't land."”

name

1. A surname from Middle English.

   “After the success of Secret of Monkey Island (1990), composer Michael Land longed for a more flexible system to integrate his music into a game.”