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4-letter words (1 found)

LAND,

3-letter words (4 found)

AND,DAL,DAN,LAD,

2-letter words (6 found)

AD,AL,AN,DA,LA,NA,

You can make 11 words from land according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of land

land alnd lnad nlad anld nald ladn aldn ldan dlan adln daln lnda nlda ldna dlna ndla dnla andl nadl adnl danl ndal dnal

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Definitions and meaning of land

land

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: lănd, IPA(key): /lænd/, [ɫeə̯nd]
  • Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lęda (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

  1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
  2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
  3. A country or region.
  4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
  6. (often in combination) realm, domain.
  7. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
    Synonym: (obsolete except Britain, dialectal) furlong
  8. (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
  9. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  10. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
  12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
  13. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
  14. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
  15. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
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Verb

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

  1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
    The plane is about to land.
  2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
    • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:
      10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
  3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
  4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
  5. (transitive) To bring to land.
    It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
    Use the net to land the fish.
  6. (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.
  7. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
  8. (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
    Too ugly to ever land a chick
  9. (transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.
    If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match
  10. (intransitive) (of a punch) To connect
    If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!
  11. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.
    Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *land, from Old English hland. More at lant.

Noun

land (uncountable)

  1. lant; urine

References

  • “land”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]

Noun

land (plural lande)

  1. country; nation

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lanˀ/, [lanˀ]
  • Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1

From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, cognate with English land, German Land.

Noun

land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

  1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent)
    Synonyms: stat, nation
  2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
  3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
  4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise
Usage notes

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

land

  1. imperative of lande

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑnt/
  • Hyphenation: land
  • Rhymes: -ɑnt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

  1. land; country
    • 1967, E. Rijpma & F. G. Schuringa, edited by Jan van Bakel, Nederlandse spraakkunst, 21st ed., p. 24, § 8 (also online at dbnl.org):
  2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)
  3. (Netherlands, Antilles) a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; the territorial government of an overseas constituent country
  4. (history, chiefly in compounds) the territorial government or state authority in a Dutch colony or overseas territory in the West Indies
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: land
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: alanda, landi
  • Negerhollands: land, lant, lan
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: land, lantta
  • → Sranan Tongo: lanti (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Verb

land

  1. inflection of landen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

Noun

land n

  1. country; nation

Declension

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lant/
  • Rhymes: -ant

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

  1. land
  2. coast
  3. country, nation
  4. ground, soil
  5. the state
Declension
Related terms
  • landa

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą, from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) urine
Declension

French

Noun

land m (plural lands or länder)

  1. land (region of Germany or Austria)

Gothic

Romanization

land

  1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lant/
  • Rhymes: -ant

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

  1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
  2. (countable) country
  3. (uncountable) countryside, country
  4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
  5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate

Declension

Derived terms

Middle English

Noun

land

  1. Alternative form of lond

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑnː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑnː

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)

  1. country
  2. land
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

land

  1. imperative of lande

References

  • “land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • lainnj (eye dialect spelling)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑnː/, /lɑnd/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

  1. country
  2. land
  3. coast, dry land
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

  1. urine from livestock

References

  • “land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

Noun

land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

  1. land

Declension

Descendants

  • Danish: land

Old English

Alternative forms

  • lond, lænd

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. See there for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑnd/

Noun

land n

  1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
  2. a country
  3. region within a country: district, province
  4. the country, countryside
  5. owned or tilled land, an estate

Usage notes

  • Using the word land is the most common way to form country names. This can be done in one of two ways:
    • Prefixing the name of a people to the word land. Ex: Franca (“French person”) → Francland (“France”), Swēo (“Swede”) → Swēoland (“Sweden”), and *Unger (“a Hungarian”) → Ungerland (“Hungary”).
    • Prefacing land with the genitive plural form of a people, producing the literal meaning “land of ____ people.” Ex: Egypta land (“Egypt”, literally “land of the Egyptians”), Siġelhearwena land (“Ethiopia”, literally “land of the Ethiopians”).
  • However, country names can also be formed other ways. For instance, words other than land are used: Dene (“a Dane”) → Denemearc (“Denmark”, literally “Dane borderland”). It is also very common to use the name of a people for the country they inhabit: On þām dagum wæs Alexander ġeboren on Crēcum swā swā miċel ȳst cōme ofer ealne middanġeard (“In those days, Alexander was born in Greece [lit. in the Greeks] like a great storm coming over the whole world”), Ymb twā ġēar þæs þe hē cōm of Francum, hē ġefōr (”Two years after he came from France [lit. from the Franks], he died”). In addition, country names are sometimes loaned directly from Latin: Arabia, Isrāēl, Italia, Syria. Finally, some country names are simply idiomatic: Norþweġ (“Norway”, literally “north way”).
  • Unlike most words, land undergoes i-umlaut when combined with the suffix -isċ: inlendisċ (“native”), uplendisċ (“rural”).

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: lond
    • English: land
    • Scots: laund, land
    • Yola: lhoan, lone

References

  • Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “land”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Irish

Noun

land ?

  1. Alternative spelling of lann

Mutation

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

Noun

land n (genitive lands, plural lǫnd)

  1. land

Declension

Descendants

  • Icelandic: land
  • Faroese: land
  • Norn: land
  • Norwegian Bokmål: land
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: land
    • Russenorsk: лань (lanʹ)
  • Old Swedish: land
    • Elfdalian: land
    • Swedish: land
  • Old Danish: land
    • Danish: land
    • Scanian: lann
  • Old Gutnish: land
    • Gutnish: land, lande, landi

References

  • land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land. Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *landā (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑnd/

Noun

land n

  1. land

Declension


Descendants

  • Middle Low German: lant
    • Dutch Low Saxon: laand
    • German Low German: Land
    • Plautdietsch: Launt

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

Noun

land n

  1. land

Declension

Descendants

  • Elfdalian: land
  • Swedish: land

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lant/
  • Rhymes: -ant
  • Syllabification: land

Noun

land m inan

  1. Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
    Synonym: kraj związkowy
    Coordinate terms: stan, kraj (“krai”)
  2. (Poznań) countryside (rural area)
    Synonyms: prowincja, wieś

Declension

Further reading

  • land in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • land in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Land.

Noun

land n (plural landuri)

  1. land (German and Austrian province)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Land.

Noun

land m (plural lands)

  1. one of the federal states of Germany

Further reading

  • “land”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /land/, [l̪an̪ːd̪], (colloquial) /lan/
  • Rhymes: -and

Noun

land n

  1. a country, a land (independent political entity)

Declension

See also

  • nation
  • stat

Noun

land n

  1. (uncountable) land (as opposed to sea)
  2. (usually in the definite) countryside, country

Usage notes

See mark for some other senses of land.

Declension

See also

  • backe
  • landsbygd
  • mark
  • på landbacken (“on land (emphasizing not at sea)”)

Noun

land n

  1. a smaller piece of land for small-scale cultivation; a patch, a garden plot, etc.

Declension

Derived terms

  • grönsaksland (“vegetable patch / plot”)
  • trädgårdsland (“garden plot”)

Derived terms

References

  • land in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • land in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • land in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Zealandic

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lant.

Noun

land n (plural [please provide])

  1. land

Source: wiktionary.org