landfall
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
landfall
- Arrival at the shore by ship.
- We made landfall at the most god-forsaken, barren, desolate, and hellish location possible to image; and we were grateful, anything to get off that ship!
- Lighthouses are usually the first aids seen when making landfall.
- The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.
- (obsolete) The first land discovered after a sea voyage.
- A landslip.
- Italian: il toccare terra, raggiungere la terraferma
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