aland

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /əˈland/

Adverb

aland (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) On dry land, as opposed to in the water. [13th-19th c.]
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, V:

     I maruell how the Fishes liue in the Sea […] Why, as Men doe a-land.

2. (now rare, poetic) To the land; ashore. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London 1846:

     Henry the Eighth […] departed out of England from Sowthampton, with a great navy of shipps to set that company aland in Spayne, for to helpe the kynge of Spayne agaynste the Frenche kynge […]

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Aland

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Proper noun

1. An archipelago in Baltic Sea
2. An autonomous province in Finland, consisting of the Aland archipelago.

Translations

• French: les îles d'Åland
• German: Åland
• Portuguese: Aland
• Russian: Ала́ндские острова́

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