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land

–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.

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 lawn¹

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—Related forms

landlike, adjective

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land up
verb
1.	block with earth, as after a landslide
2.	finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again" [syn: finish up]

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land up

to get into a particular, usually unfortunate, situation, especially through one's own fault
Example: If you go on like that, you'll land up in jail.

Arabic:	يصل إلى
Chinese (Simplified):	陷入（困境）
Chinese (Traditional):	陷入（困境）
Czech:	dostat se kam
Danish:	ende op; havne
Dutch:	belanden
Estonian:	sattuma
Finnish:	päätyä
French:	finir par se retrouver à, *en
German:	enden
Greek:	καταλήγω σε άσχημη κατάσταση με δικό μου φταίξιμο
Hungarian:	vhol találja magát v. "kiköt"
Icelandic:	enda í
Indonesian:	berakhir
Italian:	finire, ritrovarsi

Japanese:	～に陥る
Latvian:	nonākt (kļūmīgā situācijā)
Lithuanian:	atsidurti, patekti
Norwegian:	ende (opp), havne
Polish:	wylądować
Portuguese (Brazil):	acabar
Portuguese (Portugal):	acabar
Romanian:	a ajunge (la, *în)
Russian:	оказаться
Slovak:	dostať sa
Slovenian:	končati
Spanish:	acabar
Swedish:	hamna
Turkish:	sonunda … boylamak