Antonyms for land
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : land |
| Phonetic Transcription : lænd |
Definition of land
Origin :- Old English 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 Proto-Germanic *landom (cf. Old Norse, Old Frisian Dutch, German, Gothic land), from PIE *lendh- "land, heath" (cf. Old Irish land, Middle Welsh llan "an open space," Welsh llan "enclosure, church," Breton lann "heath," source of French lande; Old Church Slavonic ledina "waste land, heath," Czech lada "fallow land").
- Etymological evidence and Gothic 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 Modern English earth. Original sense of land in English is now mostly found under country. To take the lay of the land is a nautical expression. In the American English exclamation land's sakes (1846) land is a euphemism for Lord.
- noun earth's surface; ownable property
- verb arrive, come to rest on
- verb achieve, acquire
- Land of the sunshine, the deep blue sky, and snow-topped hills!
- Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- It seems pleasant to be on land after being on shipboard so many weeks.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- "Another tribe is trying to break into our land," he said to himself.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Soon the news of his terrible deed spread throughout the land.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- His name was Cup and he too had inherited his land from a hundred other Cups who had gone before.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Knife, however, must promise to leave his land to his son-in-law in case he died.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Mesopotamia, therefore, meant a stretch of land "between the rivers."
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- The land of Phoenicia had always been a counting-house without a soul.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- The Sumerians take possession of the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- Mr. Malbone would hardly imagine you had been bred in a Christian land.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Synonyms for land
- acreage
- acres
- alight
- annex
- area
- beach
- berth
- bring in
- check in
- come ashore
- come down
- come in
- come to berth
- continent
- country
- countryside
- debark
- descend upon
- dirt
- disembark
- district
- ditch
- dock
- drop anchor
- earth
- estate
- expanse
- extent
- farming
- farmland
- field
- flatten out
- gain
- get
- get down
- ground
- grounds
- have
- holding
- home
- homeland
- level off
- light on
- loam
- mainland
- make land
- manor
- nation
- obtain
- old sod
- parcel
- pick up
- pilot
- plot
- procure
- province
- purlieu
- put down
- put in
- quarry
- quinta
- ranch
- real estate
- realty
- region
- secure
- set down
- set on deck
- settle
- shore
- sit down
- sod
- soil
- splash down
- steer
- stretch
- sweep
- take down
- terra firma
- terrain
- territory
- thump
- tillage
- touch down
- tract
- win
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