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land

noun: the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"

noun: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"

noun: territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"

noun: the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"

noun: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"

noun: a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"

noun: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"

noun: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"

noun: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

noun: United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)

noun: agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"

verb: reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul"

verb: cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"

verb: bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"

verb: bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"

verb: deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"

verb: arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"

verb: shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"