Word Finder - land

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The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

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Most insects live on land.

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Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.

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There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

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A country or region.

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A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

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The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

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wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes

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(often in combination) realm, domain.

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I'm going to Disneyland.

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The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

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A shock or fright.

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He got an awful land when the police arrived.

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A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

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In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

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

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

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The ground or floor.

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The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

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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.

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A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

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To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

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The plane is about to land.

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To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

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To come into rest.

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To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.

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To bring to land.

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It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

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To acquire; to secure.

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To deliver.

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Of or relating to land.

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Residing or growing on land.

They filled the land with terror.

I don't know anything about that land up there.

It must be nice having your land so close to the park.

It was a beautiful land lying on both sides of the wonderful river Nile.

Yeah, but here you measure the land by cows per acre, not the other way around.

Enjoy the land, but own it not.

His fame had not been forgotten in the Land of Oz, by any means.

Ha, still living in fairy-tale land, I see.

Even the fact that she was born in a town where he owned land is coincidence enough.

That girl knows no bounds and can land any man.

Yes, but this is park land.

We have much land here – about a quarter-section.

If I'm stuck in the land of the living, I'm going to live a normal life.

Anyway, I meant I've never seen a bear on this land before.

I thought you were going to live off the land.

Your father even offered you land if you would come down here to stay.

Maybe he wasn't a saddle bum, but only a greenhorn would think he could live off the barren land that surrounded them.

Of course, he liked the land around her farm - but building a house was a major investment, especially that one.

This was her land in name only.

Why Quinn wasn't voted the least likely to land the school's prom queen beauty, I'll never know.

But I must be ever cautious with my new means of touring about the land.

This here's Detective Dean from up in Yankee land.

The deep part of the pool was small, but years of practice had taught her where to land.

There are also several Albanian settlements in European Turkey and Asia Minor, some founded by military colonists who received grants of land from successive sultans, others owing their origin to enforced migrations after insurrections in Albania.

As far west, therefore, as the Cordillera, there is no evidence that any part of the region was ever beneath the sea in Mesozoic times, and the plant-remains indicate a land connexion with Africa.

We can see also that, though several languages were in use in England during the time of Norman rule, yet England was not a land of many languages in the same sense in which Sicily was.

From England, moreover, he spread into Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and in each land his settlement put on a somewhat different character, according to the circumstances of the land.

That is, the discerning Norman, as ever, adapted himself, but adapted himself in an intelligent way, to the circumstances of each land in which he found himself.

The southern half of the country is mostly undulating grass land, well watered by streams and springs.

Land for farming purposes is expensive, and wages are high, leaving small profit, unless it happens that a man, with his family to assist him, works his own land.

Uruguayan wool is favourably regarded in foreign markets, on account of the clean state in which it is shipped, this being largely due to the natural conditions of the land and climate.

In the deltas of shoal rivers, with a strong tide or current and no land visible, a 5 lb lead is substituted for the log-ship; the lead rests on the bottom, and the speed is obtained in a manner similar to that previously described.

On the admission of Indiana as a state, Congress gave to it four sections of public land as a site on which to establish a state capital.

Upon its final acceptance as the capital, there was some activity in land speculation, but Indianapolis had only 600 inhabitants and a single street when the seat of government was removed thither in 1824.

But the privileged class alone are eligible to the greatest offices of the state; they have in their hands the exclusive control of the national religion; they have the exclusive enjoyment of the common land of the state - in Teutonic phrase, the folkland.

In any case the Spartans form a ruling body, and a body whose privileged position in the land is owing to conquest.

In all probability the western projection of Africa was connected by a land bridge with the opposite land of Brazil as late as the Eocene period of the Tertiary epoch.

We had a well-to-do homestead, plenty of land, we peasants lived well and our house was one to thank God for.

All I really wanted was the land in the first place, and they approached me about settling.

They aren't supposed to be hunting on private land without permission, and ours is posted anyway.

On the third day, he decided to land.

The video game showed two holograms at once, a space battle and a land battle.

Maybe you snuck up here and helped hustle along your sweetie on her trip to never-never land.

I so hope you will sweep me off my feet and take me away from my sad, lonely life straight to fairy-tale land.

I could run a passel of cattle on that land.

The two-story home had been built in the depression years and although there was little land around it, it was comfortable, well constructed and had answered Dean's limited needs—at least "temporarily"—for the past 15 years.

Before leaving, Hunter showed Dean the beach across the road where it was presumed Jeffrey Byrne took his last steps on land.

Gently laying Cynthia on his bed, he tried to revive her but it was obvious she would be in the land of dreams for quite some time.

Dean prayed it wouldn't land them both in jail.

Another added, You picked a pretty good spot to land, too.