land
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(adjective) relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land; "land vehicles" |
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Antonyms: air, sea |
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(verb) reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" |
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Synonyms: set down |
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Related Words: alight, arrive, beach, belly-land, come, crash land, debark, disembark, force-land, get, light, perch, set down, touch down, undershoot |
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(verb) cause to come to the ground; of aircraft |
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Synonyms: bring down, put down |
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Related Words: arrive, come, get |
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(verb) arrive on shore; of ships |
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Synonyms: set ashore, shore |
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Related Words: arrive, come, get |
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(verb) bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
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Related Words: bring, convey, ground, run aground, take |
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(verb) deliver, as of a blow; "He landed several blows on his opponent's head" |
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Related Words: deliver |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma |
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Related Words: America, archipelago, cape, champaign, coastal plain, field, floor, foreland, forest, hills, island, isthmus, landmass, mainland, neck, ness, object, oxbow, peninsula, physical object, plain, slash, the Americas, timber, timberland, wonderland, woodland |
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(noun) what plants grow in (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil" |
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Synonyms: ground, soil |
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Related Words: badlands, bottom, bottomland, coastland, cultivated land, greensward, object, overburden, permafrost, physical object, rangeland, sod, sward, tillage, tilled land, tilth, turf, wetland |
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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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Related Words: farmstead, homestead, real estate, real property, realty |
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(verb) bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail" |
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Synonyms: bring |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(adjective) operating or living or growing on land |
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Synonyms: terrestrial |
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(noun) working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" |
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Synonyms: farming |
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Related Words: business, line, line of work, occupation |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: acres, demesne, estate, landed estate |
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Related Words: Crown land, barony, countryseat, entail, feoff, fief, freehold, glebe, hacienda, homestead, leasehold, manor, plantation, real estate, real property, realty, seigneury, seignory, signory, smallholding |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: kingdom, realm |
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Related Words: area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere |
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(verb) shoot at and force to come down; of aircraft |
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Synonyms: down, shoot down |
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(noun) the people of a nation or country or a community of persons bound by a common heritage; "a nation of Catholics"; "the whole country worshipped him" |
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Synonyms: a people, country, nation, nationality |
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Related Words: British, British people, Brits, English, English people, French, French people, Irish, Irish people, Spanish, Spanish people, Swiss, Swiss people, people, the British, the English, the French, the Irish, the Swiss |
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(noun) the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" |
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Synonyms: country, nation, state |
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Related Words: African country, African nation, Antigua and Barbuda, Asian country, Asian nation, Australia, Bahama Islands, Bahamas, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ceylon, Commonwealth of Australia, Comoros, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Dutch East Indies, European country, European nation, Fiji, Friendly Islands, Grenada, Haiti, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Kiribati, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Nauru, New Hebrides, New Zealand, North American country, North American nation, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of the Philippines, Russia, Saint Christopher-Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo, Sao Thome e Principe, Sao Tome e Principe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, South American country, South American nation, Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Thomas and Principe, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmen, Turkmenia, Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Tuvalu, USSR, Ukraine, Ukrayina, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Vanuatu, Western Samoa, Yisrael, Zion, administrative district, administrative division, buffer country, buffer state, country of origin, fatherland, homeland, kingdom, mother country, motherland, native land, territorial division |
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(noun) 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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Synonyms: demesne, domain |
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Related Words: Kingdom of God, archduchy, barony, duchy, dukedom, earldom, emirate, empire, grand duchy, kingdom, princedom, principality, realm, region, sheikdom, sheikhdom, suzerainty, viscounty |
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(noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president" |
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Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, nation, res publica, state |
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Related Words: Reich, ally, city state, great power, major power, political unit, power, sea power, superpower, suzerain, world power |
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