• (America) enPR: lănd, IPA: /lænd/, [ɫeə̯nd]

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-.

Cognate with Scots laund, Western Frisian lân, Dutch land, German Land, Norwegian - and Swedish land, Icelandic land. Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann, Welsh llan, Breton lann, Church Slavic лѧдо, from sla-pro *lęda and Albanian lëndinë.

land

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

   Most insects live on land.

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

   There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

3. A country or region.

   They come from a faraway land.

4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

   wet land    good or bad land for growing potatoes

6. (often, in combination) realm, domain.

   I'm going to Disneyland.

   Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.

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

   Synonyms: furlong

8. (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.

   He got an awful land when the police arrived.

9. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
10. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
    • 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record, page 72:

      Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.

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

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

12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 7:

      her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate

13. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
14. 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.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
15. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

• French: terre
• German: Land, Land
• Italian: terra
• Portuguese: terra
• Russian: земля́
• Spanish: tierra

• French: terre, terrain
• German: Land, Land
• Portuguese: terra, propriedade, terreno
• Russian: земля́
• Spanish: propiedad, terreno, posesión, hacienda, fundo

• French: contrée, pays
• German: Land, Land
• Italian: terra
• Portuguese: terra
• Russian: страна́
• Spanish: patria, país

• French: pays, patrie
• German: Vaterland
• Portuguese: terra
• Spanish: patria, tierra

• French: terre
• German: Land, Land
• Italian: terreno, distesa, appezzamento
• Portuguese: terra
• Russian: земля́
• Spanish: vega

• Russian: поле нарез

land (lands, present participle landing; simple past and past participle landed)

1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

   The plane is about to land.

2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
   • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:

     10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.

3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
5. (transitive) To bring to land.

   It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

   Use the net to land the fish.

   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene iii]:

     I'll undertake to land them on our coast.

6. (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
7. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
8. (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

   Too ugly to ever land a chick

9. (transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

   If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match

10. (intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

    If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!

11. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

    Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.

• French: poser, atterrir
• German: landen
• Italian: atterrare
• Portuguese: aterrar, pousar, aterrissar
• Russian: приземля́ться
• Spanish: aterrizar, (on Mars) amartizar, (on the Moon) alunizar

• French: aborder
• Portuguese: desembarcar
• Russian: выса́живаться
• Spanish: aterrar, atracar

• French: poser
• German: landen
• Portuguese: aterrissar, aterrar
• Russian: выса́живать
• Spanish: aterrizar

• German: an Land ziehen

From Middle English *land, from Old English hland.

land (uncountable)

1. lant; urine

1. Surname.
   • 2012, Peter Moormann, Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance, page 82:

     After the success of Secret of Monkey Island (1990), composer Michael Land longed for a more flexible system to integrate his music into a game.