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LANDSLIDE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does landslide mean?

• LANDSLIDE (noun)
The noun LANDSLIDE has 2 senses:

1. an overwhelming electoral victory
2. a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

Familiarity information: LANDSLIDE used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• LANDSLIDE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An overwhelming electoral victory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Context example:

Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide

Hypernyms ("landslide" is a kind of...):

triumph; victory (a successful ending of a struggle or contest)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

landslip; landslide

Hypernyms ("landslide" is a kind of...):

slide ((geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landslide"):

mudslide (a landslide of mud)

rockslide (a landslide of rocks)

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