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land·ing (lan′diŋ)

noun

  1. the act of coming to shore or of going or putting ashore
  2. a place where a ship or boat takes on or unloads cargo or passengers
  3. a platform at the end of a flight of stairs
  4. the act of alighting, or coming to the ground, as after a flight, jump, or fall

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landing Synonyms

landing

n.

  1. The act of reaching shore

    arriving, docking, berthing, wharfing, piloting, making port, steering, casting anchor, anchoring, dropping anchor, disembarkation; see also arrival 1.

  2. The place where landing, sense 1, is possible

    marina, pier, wharf; see dock 1, harbor 2.

  3. The act of reaching the earth

    setting down, grounding, getting in, arriving, deplaning, reaching an airport, touchdown, splashdown, completing a mission, vertical landing, settling, alighting, ballooning in*.


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landing Usage Examples

Preposition: on

  • d-day: Special armored vehicles were therefore developed to support the infantrymen landing on D-Day.

Converse of object

  • commemorate: Visible across the bay is Point Loma where a statue of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo commemorates the landing of the first European in 1542.

Adjective modifier

  • d-day: Its historical claim to fame is being involved in the D-Day landings of American troops on to the Normandy beaches in 1944.

Modifies a noun

  • craft: Relief aboard a tank landing craft followed by news of my brother killed in Burma end of August.

Noun used with modifier

  • moon: The Apollo moon landing is topping many of these lists.
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landing quotes

I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving thegoal, beforethisdecadeisout, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

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