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land

  [land]
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–noun
1. any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow's nest.
2. an area of ground with reference to its nature or composition: arable land.
3. an area of ground with specific boundaries: to buy land on which to build a house.
4. rural or farming areas, as contrasted with urban areas: They left the land for the city.
5. Law.
a. any part of the earth's surface that can be owned as property, and everything annexed to it, whether by nature or by the human hand.
b. any legal interest held in land.
6. Economics. natural resources as a factor of production.
7. a part of the surface of the earth marked off by natural or political boundaries or the like; a region or country: They came from many lands.
8. the people of a region or country
9. Audio. the flat surface between the grooves of a phonograph record.
10. a realm or domain: the land of the living.
11. a surface between furrows, as on a millstone or on the interior of a rifle barrel.
12. Scot. a tenement house.
–verb (used with object)
13. to bring to or set on land: to land passengers or goods from a ship; to land an airplane.
14. to bring into or cause to arrive in a particular place, position, or condition: His behavior will land him in jail.
15. Informal. to catch or capture; gain; win: to land a job.
16. Angling. to bring (a fish) to land, or into a boat, etc., as with a hook or a net.
–verb (used without object)
17. to come to land or shore: The boat lands at Cherbourg.
18. to go or come ashore from a ship or boat.
19. to alight upon a surface, as the ground, a body of water, or the like: to land on both feet.
20. to hit or strike the ground, as from a height: The ball landed at the far side of the court.
21. to strike and come to rest on a surface or in something: The golf ball landed in the lake.
22. to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes fol. by up): to land in trouble; to land up 40 miles from home.
—Verb phrase
23. land on, Informal. to reprimand; criticize: His mother landed on him for coming home so late.
—Idioms
24. land on one's feet. foot (def. 40).
25. see how the land lies, to investigate in advance; inform oneself of the facts of a situation before acting: You should see how the land lies before making a formal proposal. Compare lay of the land.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME (n. and v.), OE (n.); c. D, G, ON, Goth land; akin to Ir lann, Welsh llan church (orig. enclosure), Breton lann heath. See lawn 1

Related forms:
landlike, adjective
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Land

  [land]
–noun
Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera.

-land

 
a combining form of land: hinterland; lowland.
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land   (lānd)   
n.  

  1. The solid ground of the earth.

    1. Ground or soil: tilled the land.

    2. A topographically or functionally distinct tract: desert land; prime building land.

    3. A nation; a country.

    4. The people of a nation, district, or region.

    5. lands Territorial possessions or property.

    6. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.

    7. A landed estate.

    8. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.

    9. Farming considered as a way of life: "The 'back to the land movement' began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy." (Michael Baker).

    1. A nation; a country.

    2. The people of a nation, district, or region.

    3. lands Territorial possessions or property.

    4. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.

    5. A landed estate.

    6. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.

    7. Farming considered as a way of life: "The 'back to the land movement' began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy." (Michael Baker).

  4. Public or private landed property; real estate.

  5. Law

    1. A tract that may be owned, together with everything growing or constructed on it.

    2. A landed estate.

    3. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.

    4. Farming considered as a way of life: "The 'back to the land movement' began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy." (Michael Baker).

    1. An agricultural or farming area: wanted to buy a house on the land.

    2. Farming considered as a way of life: "The 'back to the land movement' began a couple years ago at the peak of South Korea's economic development and has roots in environmentalism and Buddhist philosophy." (Michael Baker).

  7. An area or realm: the land of make-believe; the land of television.

  8. The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

v.   land·ed, land·ing, lands

v.   tr.

    1. To bring to and unload on land: land cargo.

    2. To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface: land an airplane smoothly; land a seaplane on a lake.

    3. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.

    4. Informal To win; secure: land a big contract.

  2. Informal To cause to arrive in a place or condition: Civil disobedience will land you in jail.

    1. To catch and pull in (a fish): landed a big catfish.

    2. Informal To win; secure: land a big contract.

  4. Informal To deliver: landed a blow on his opponent's head.

v.   intr.

    1. To come to shore: landed against the current with great difficulty.

    2. To disembark: landed at a crowded dock.

  2. To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface: The helicopter has landed.

  3. Informal To arrive in a place or condition: landed at the theater too late for the opening curtain; landed in trouble for being late.

  4. To come to rest in a certain way or place: slipped and landed on his shoulder.


[Middle English, from Old English; see lendh- in Indo-European roots.]
Land   (lānd)   
American inventor who developed (1932) the light-polarizing plastic film called Polaroid and incorporated it into lenses for cameras and sunglasses. He also invented the one-step photographic process (1947).
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Word Origin & History

land  (n.)
O.E. land, lond, "ground, soil," also "definite portion of the earth's surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries," from P.Gmc. *landom (cf. O.N., O.Fris. Du., Ger., Goth. land), from PIE *lendh- "land, heath" (cf. O.Ir. land, Middle Welsh llan "an open space," Welsh llan "enclosure, church," Breton lann "heath," source of Fr. lande; O.C.S. ledina "waste land, heath," Czech lada "fallow land"). Etymological evidence and Goth. use indicates the original sense was "a definite portion of the earth's surface owned by an individual or home of a nation." Meaning early extended to "solid surface of the earth," which had been the sense of the root of Mod.Eng. earth. Original sense of land in Eng. is now mostly found under country. Landlocked is first attested 1622. Landlord in modern usage first recorded 1419; landlady is from 1536. To take the lay of the land is a nautical expression. Landed "possessed of land" is late O.E. gelandod. In the Amer.Eng. exclamation land's sakes (1846) land is a euphemism for Lord.

land  (v.1)
"to bring to land," c.1300, from land (n.). Originally of ships; of fish, in the angling sense, from 1613; hence fig. sense of "to obtain" (a job, etc.), first recorded 1854. Of aircraft, attested from 1916. Landing for boats is from 1609; of stairs, first attested 1789. Landfall "sighting of land" (1627) is from fall in the sense of "happen."

land  (v.2)
"to make contact, to hit home" (of a punch, etc.), altered from lend in a playful sense.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

Land

Property or real estate, not including buildings or equipment. Land is not depreciable under IRS tax law.

Investopedia Commentary

Selling land results in a capital gain or loss.

See also: Capital Gain, Capital Loss, Depreciation

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Financial Dictionary

land

A firm's dollar investment in real estate.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: land
Function: noun
1 : an area of the earth usually inclusive of improvements, bodies of water, and natural or man-made objects and extending indefinitely upward and downward —compare AIR RIGHT
2 : an estate, interest, or right in land <land means both surface and mineral rights —California Public Resources Code>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Idioms & Phrases

land

In addition to the idioms beginning with land, also see cloud-cuckoo land; fall (land) on one's feet; fat of the land; la-la land; lay of the land; never-never land.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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