land

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Noun
the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"
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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"
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territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
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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"
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the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
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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"
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extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
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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"
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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"
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United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
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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"
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cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
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bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"
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bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
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deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent''s head"
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arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
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shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
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African country African nation alight ally archduchy archipelago Asian country Asian nation badlands banana republic barony beach beachfront belly-land bottom bottomland British British people Brits buffer country buffer state cape champaign city state city-state coastal plain coastland commonwealth country country of origin countryseat crash land Crown land cultivated land debark developing country disembark Dominion duchy dukedom Dutch Dutch people earldom emirate empire English English people entail European country European nation farmland farmstead fatherland feoff fief fiefdom field floor force-land foreign country foreland forest freehold French French people glebe grand duchy great power greensward ground hacienda homeland homestead imperium Irish Irish people island isthmus khanate kingdom land mass landmass leasehold light lotus land lotusland mainland major power manor mother country motherland native land neck ness no man''s land North American country North American nation overburden oxbow peninsula perch permafrost plain plantation ploughland plowland polder port power princedom principality rangeland realm Reich renegade state rogue nation rogue state run aground scablands sea power seigneury seigniory set down sheikdom sheikhdom signory slash smallholding sod South American country South American nation Spanish Spanish people strand sultanate superpower suzerain suzerainty sward Swiss Swiss people tax haven tillage tilled land tilth timber timberland touch down turf undershoot viscounty wetland wonderland woodland world power
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