aland
see also: Aland
Pronunciation
Aland
Proper noun
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see also: Aland
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /əˈland/
aland (not comparable)
- (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.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Pericles, V:
- (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 […]
- c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London 1846:
Aland
Proper noun
- An archipelago in Baltic Sea
- An autonomous province in Finland, consisting of the Aland archipelago.
- French: les îles d'Åland
- German: Åland
- Portuguese: Aland
- Russian: Ала́ндские острова́
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