Land in a sentence

Definition of Land

• The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.
• Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.
• Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
• The inhabitants of a nation or people.
• The mainland, in distinction from islands.
• The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
• Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.
• The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
• In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.
• To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
• To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
• To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.
• To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.
• To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.
• To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.
• To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington.
• agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
• the people who live in a nation or country
• a politically organized body of people under a single government
• the territory occupied by a nation
• territory over which rule or control is exercised
• the solid part of the earth's surface
• material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
• United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
• extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
• the land on which real estate is located
• a domain in which something is dominant
• bring into a different state
• reach or come to rest
• cause to come to the ground
• shoot at and force to come down
• arrive on shore
• bring ashore
• deliver (a blow)