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Land means to bring something back to earth or to shore, or to achieve something or get something. (verb)

An example of land is when you dock a boat on the shore.
An example of land is when you bring a plane successfully from the air to the runway.
An example of land is when you get a job you have been trying for.

Land is the part of the surface of the earth that is solid ground and not water. (noun)

An example of land is the area where you are standing on the ground right now.
An example of land is the plot that your house is located on.

See land in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the solid part of the earth's surface not covered by water
a specific part of the earth's surface
1. a country, region, etc.: a distant land, one's native land
2. the inhabitants of such an area; nation's people
ground or soil in terms of its quality, location, etc.: rich land, high land
1. ground considered as property; estate: to invest in land
2. specific holdings in land
rural or farming regions as distinguished from urban regions: to return to the land
that part of a grooved surface which is not indented, as any of the ridges between the grooves in the bore of a rifle
☆ the Lord: a euphemism: for land's sake!
Econ. natural resources

transitive verb

to put on shore from a ship or boat
to bring into; cause to enter or end up in a particular place or condition: a fight landed him in jail
to set (an aircraft) down on land or water
to draw successfully onto land or into a boat; catch: to land a fish
Informal to get, win, or secure: to land a job
Informal to deliver (a blow)

intransitive verb

to leave a ship or boat and go on shore; disembark
to come to a port or to shore: said of a ship
to arrive at a specified place; end up
to alight or come to rest, as after a flight, jump, or fall

Land, Edwin Herbert 1909-91; U.S. physicist, inventor, & industrialist

See land in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(lănd)

noun

The solid ground of the earth.
a. Ground or soil: tilled the land.
b. A topographically or functionally distinct tract: desert land; prime building land.
a. A nation; a country.
b. The people of a nation, district, or region.
c. lands Territorial possessions or property.
Public or private landed property; real estate.
Law
a. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.
b. A landed estate.
a. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.
b. Farming considered as a way of life: “The ‘back to the land movement’ began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy.” (Michael Baker).
An area or realm: the land of make-believe; the land of television.
The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

verb land·ed, land·ing, lands

verb, transitive

a. To bring to and unload on land: land cargo.
b. To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface: land an airplane smoothly; land a seaplane on a lake.
Informal To cause to arrive in a place or condition: Civil disobedience will land you in jail.
a. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.
b. Informal To win; secure: land a big contract.
Informal To deliver: landed a blow on his opponent's head.

verb, intransitive

a. To come to shore: landed against the current with great difficulty.
b. To disembark: landed at a crowded dock.
To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface: The helicopter has landed.
Informal To arrive in a place or condition: landed at the theater too late for the opening curtain; landed in trouble for being late.
To come to rest in a certain way or place: slipped and landed on his shoulder.

(lănd), Edwin Herbert 1909-1991.

American inventor who developed (1932) the light-polarizing plastic film called Polaroid and incorporated it into lenses for cameras and sunglasses. He also invented the one-step photographic process (1947).

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