These are word's definitions related to land. Click on any word to go to its word's detail page. Or, go to the definition of land.
1 a country:
2 to (cause to) arrive on the ground or other surface after moving down through the air:
4 to catch a fish with a hook (= curved piece of wire) or net and remove it from the water:
5 to get or achieve something good, especially in a way that seems easy or unexpected:
8 a country:
Ireland was my mother’s native land.
9 to arrive or cause something to arrive at a place in an aircraft:
10 to unload people or things from a ship or aircraft onto the ground:
11 to get or achieve something desirable:
to land a job
13 an area of ground, especially when used for a particular purpose such as farming or building:
14 the land owned by a person or organization:
It was understood that federal lands would be given to the oil and gas industry.
15 a way of referring to farms, farming, and the countryside:
16 when a plane lands or someone lands it, it comes down from the sky to the ground:
We shall be landing at Paris, Charles de Gaulle, in approximately ten minutes.
17 when a boat lands, it arrives at a port, etc. next to the land:
The ferry will land at the International Ferry Terminal.
20 to get or achieve something good, for example a job:
In the past six months they have landed some high-profile contracts.