Dictionary entry details
• LAND (noun)
Meaning:
The land on which real estate is located
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Context example:
he built the house on land leased from the city
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
immovable; real estate; real property; realty (property consisting of houses and land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land"):
farmstead (the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm)
homestead (the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family)
no man's land (land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable))
Meaning:
Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
land; soil; ground
Context examples:
the land had never been plowed / good agricultural soil
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land"):
wetland (a low area where the land is saturated with water)
greensward; sod; sward; turf (surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots)
scablands ((geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington))
rangeland (land suitable for grazing livestock)
polder (low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands))
permafrost (ground that is permanently frozen)
overburden (the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits)
cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; plowland; tillage; tilled land; tilth (arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops)
coastland (land in a coastal area)
bottom; bottomland (low-lying alluvial land near a river)
badlands (deeply eroded barren land)
Meaning:
The solid part of the earth's surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
dry land; terra firma; ground; solid ground; land; earth
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land"):
landmass (a large continuous extent of land)
mainland (the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula)
neck (a narrow elongated projecting strip of land)
oxbow (the land inside an oxbow bend in a river)
peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)
slash (an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind))
wonderland (a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder)
isthmus (a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas)
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
forest; timber; timberland; woodland (land that is covered with trees and shrubs)
archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)
beachfront (a strip of land running along a beach)
cape; ness (a strip of land projecting into a body of water)
coastal plain (a plain adjacent to a coast)
floor (the ground on which people and animals move about)
foreland (land forming the forward margin of something)
Instance hyponyms:
America (North America and South America and Central America)
Holonyms ("land" is a part of...):
Earth; globe; world (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on)
Meaning:
Territory over which rule or control is exercised
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
demesne; domain; land
Context examples:
his domain extended into Europe / he made it the law of the land
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land"):
viscounty (the domain controlled by a viscount or viscountess)
khanate (the realm of a khan)
kingdom; realm (the domain ruled by a king or queen)
princedom; principality (territory ruled by a prince)
Kingdom of God (the domain over which God is spiritually sovereign)
sheikdom; sheikhdom (the domain ruled by a sheik)
suzerainty (the domain of a suzerain)
grand duchy (the domain controlled by a grand duke or grand duchess)
fiefdom (the domain controlled by a feudal lord)
empire; imperium (the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised)
archduchy (the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess)
barony (the domain of a baron)
duchy; dukedom (the domain controlled by a duke or duchess)
earldom (the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess)
emirate (the domain controlled by an emir)
Holonyms ("land" is a part of...):
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meaning:
The territory occupied by a nation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
country; land; state
Context examples:
he returned to the land of his birth / he visited several European countries
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "land"):
midland (the interior part of a country)
demesne; domain; land (territory over which rule or control is exercised)
Meronyms (members of "land"):
department (the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France))
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land"):
sultanate (country or territory ruled by a sultan)
North American country; North American nation (a country on the North American continent)
South American country; South American nation (countries occupying the South American continent)
Asian country; Asian nation (nations occupying the Asian continent)
African country; African nation (countries occupying the African continent)
European country; European nation (countries occupying the European continent)
tax haven (a country or independent region where taxes are low)
banana republic (a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas))
country of origin; fatherland; homeland; mother country; motherland; native land (the country where you were born)
buffer country; buffer state (a small neutral state between two rival powers)
kingdom (a country with a king as head of state)
Instance hyponyms:
Saint Lucia; St. Lucia (a country on the island of Saint Lucia; gained independence from Great Britain in 1979)
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis; St. Christopher-Nevis; St. Kitts and Nevis (a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983)
Philippines; Republic of the Philippines (a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)
Palau; Republic of Palau; TT (a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States)
New Zealand (an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery)
Mauritius; Republic of Mauritius (a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius)
Maldives; Republic of Maldives (a republic on the Maldive Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1965)
Grenada (an island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea; an independent state within the British Commonwealth)
Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)
Burkina Faso; Upper Volta (a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960)
Malta; Republic of Malta (a republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964)
Independent State of Samoa; Samoa; Samoa i Sisifo; Western Samoa (a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific)
New Hebrides; Republic of Vanuatu; Vanuatu (a volcanic island republic in Melanesia; independent since 1980)
Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923)
Friendly Islands; Kingdom of Tonga; Tonga (a monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970)
Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen (a republic in Asia east of the Caspian Sea and south of Kazakhstan and north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991)
Ukraine; Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)
Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)
Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)
Rus (the medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev)
Solomon Islands (the southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth)
Republic of Seychelles; Seychelles (a republic on the Seychelles islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1976)
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe; Sao Thome e Principe; Sao Tome and Principe; Sao Tome e Principe; St. Thomas and Principe (island nation in the South Atlantic off the West coast of Africa; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975; has enormous offshore oil reserves)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; St. Vincent and the Grenadines (an island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979)
Bahama Islands; Bahamas; Commonwealth of the Bahamas (island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort)
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidad and Tobago (an island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)
Barbados (a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former British colony; a popular resort area)
Jamaica (a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism)
Dominican Republic (a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola)
Haiti; Republic of Haiti (a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere)
Cuba; Republic of Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)
Comoros; Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros (a country on the Comoro Islands)
Ceylon; Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka (a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948)
Cape Verde; Republic of Cape Verde (an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal)
Antigua and Barbuda (a country in the northern Leeward Islands)
Cyprus; Republic of Cyprus (a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin)
Commonwealth of Dominica; Dominica (a country on the island of Dominica)
East Timor (a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation)
Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea (a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea)
Nauru; Republic of Nauru (an island republic on Nauru Island; phosphate exports support the economy)
Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just south of the equator)
Tuvalu (a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978)
Marshall Islands; Republic of the Marshall Islands (a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands)
Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT (a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986)
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Etruria (an ancient country in central Italy; assimilated by the Romans by about 200 BC)
Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)
Fiji; Republic of Fiji (an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands)
Meaning:
A domain in which something is dominant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
kingdom; realm; land
Context examples:
the untroubled kingdom of reason / a land of make-believe / the rise of the realm of cotton in the south
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
area; arena; domain; field; orbit; sphere (a particular environment or walk of life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land"):
lotus land; lotusland (an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence)
Meaning:
Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
landed estate; demesne; acres; estate; land
Context example:
the family owned a large estate on Long Island
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
immovable; real estate; real property; realty (property consisting of houses and land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land"):
Crown land (land that belongs to the Crown)
manor (the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it))
seigneury; seigniory; signory (the estate of a seigneur)
hacienda (a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries)
plantation (an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas))
entail (land received by fee tail)
countryseat (an estate in the country)
barony (the estate of a baron)
freehold (an estate held in fee simple or for life)
glebe (plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office)
leasehold (land or property held under a lease)
smallholding (a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation)
homestead (land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law)
feoff; fief (a piece of land held under the feudal system)
Meaning:
The people who live in a nation or country
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
nation; country; land
Context examples:
a statement that sums up the nation's mood / the news was announced to the nation / the whole country worshipped him
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Meronyms (members of "land"):
national; subject (a person who owes allegiance to that nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land"):
Dutch; Dutch people (the people of the Netherlands)
Swiss; Swiss people (the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland)
Spanish; Spanish people (the people of Spain)
French; French people (the people of France)
Irish; Irish people (people of Ireland or of Irish extraction)
English; English people (the people of England)
British; British people; Brits (the people of Great Britain)
Meaning:
A politically organized body of people under a single government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
body politic; res publica; nation; country; commonwealth; state; land
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)
Meronyms (parts of "land"):
estate; estate of the realm (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land"):
ally (a friendly nation)
city state; city-state (a state consisting of a sovereign city)
great power; major power; power; superpower; world power (a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world)
sea power (a nation that possesses formidable naval strength)
suzerain (a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs)
renegade state; rogue nation; rogue state (a state that does not respect other states in its international actions)
Reich (the German state)
foreign country (any state of which you are not a citizen)
Dominion (one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth)
developing country (a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically)
commonwealth country (any of the countries in the British Commonwealth)
Instance hyponyms:
Eelam; Tamil Eelam (the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for)
Meaning:
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Edwin Herbert Land; Din Land; Land
Instance hypernyms:
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
Meaning:
Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
farming; land
Context examples:
farming is a strenuous life / there's no work on the land any more
Hypernyms ("land" is a kind of...):
business; job; line; line of work; occupation (the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money)
• LAND (adjective)
Meaning:
Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land
Context example:
land vehicles
Similar:
onshore (on the edge of the land)
overland (traveling or passing over land)
Antonym:
air (relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air)
sea (relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships)
• LAND (verb)
Meaning:
Reach or come to rest
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
land; set down
Context examples:
The bird landed on the highest branch / The plane landed in Istanbul
Hypernyms (to "land" is one way to...):
arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "land"):
alight; light; perch (to come to rest, settle)
crash land (make an emergency landing)
belly-land (land on the underside without the landing gear)
undershoot (fall short of (the runway) in a landing)
touch down (come or bring (a plane) to a landing)
debark; disembark; set down (go ashore)
port (land at or reach a port)
beach (land on a beach)
force-land (make a forced landing)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The airplane is sure to land
Meaning:
Cause to come to the ground
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
land; put down; bring down
Context example:
the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
Hypernyms (to "land" is one way to...):
arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Cause:
land; set down (reach or come to rest)
Domain category:
air; air travel; aviation (travel via aircraft)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Bring into a different state
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
land; bring
Context example:
this may land you in jail
Hypernyms (to "land" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Bring ashore
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island
Hypernyms (to "land" is one way to...):
bring; convey; take (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "land"):
ground; run aground (bring to the ground)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Deliver (a blow)
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Context example:
He landed several blows on his opponent's head
Hypernyms (to "land" is one way to...):
deliver; drive home (carry out or perform)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something PP
Meaning:
Arrive on shore
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
set ashore; shore; land
Context example:
The ship landed in Pearl Harbor
Hypernyms (to "land" is one way to...):
arrive; come; get (reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Shoot at and force to come down
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
shoot down; down; land
Context example:
the enemy landed several of our aircraft
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
