landing

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that lands: The pilot brought his plane in for a landing.
2. a place where persons or goods are landed, as from a ship: The boat moored at the landing.
3. Architecture.
   1. a platform between flights of stairs.
   2. the floor at the head or foot of a flight of stairs.
4. Shipbuilding.
   1. the overlap of two plates or planks, as in a clinker-built shell.
   2. the distance between the center of a rivet hole and the edge of the plate or shape into which it is cut.

noun

1. any part of the earth’s surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth’s surface occupied by continents and islands: Land was sighted from the crow’s nest.
2. an area of ground with reference to its nature or composition: arable land.
3. an area of ground with specific boundaries: to buy land on which to build a house.
4. rural or farming areas, as contrasted with urban areas: They left the land for the city.
5. Law.
   1. any part of the earth’s surface that can be owned as property, and everything annexed to it, whether by nature or by the human hand.
   2. any legal interest held in land.
6. Economics. natural resources as a factor of production.
7. a part of the surface of the earth marked off by natural or political boundaries or the like; a region or country: They came from many lands.
8. the people of a region or country
9. Audio. the flat surface between the grooves of a phonograph record.
10. a realm or domain: the land of the living.
11. a surface between furrows, as on a millstone or on the interior of a rifle barrel.
12. Scot. a tenement house.

verb (used with object)

13. to bring to or set on land: to land passengers or goods from a ship; to land an airplane.
14. to bring into or cause to arrive in a particular place, position, or condition: His behavior will land him in jail.
15. Informal. to catch or capture; gain; win: to land a job.
16. Angling. to bring (a fish) to land, or into a boat, etc., as with a hook or a net.

verb (used without object)

17. to come to land or shore: The boat lands at Cherbourg.
18. to go or come ashore from a ship or boat.
19. to alight upon a surface, as the ground, a body of water, or the like: to land on both feet.
20. to hit or strike the ground, as from a height: The ball landed at the far side of the court.
21. to strike and come to rest on a surface or in something: The golf ball landed in the lake.
22. to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes followed by up): to land in trouble; to land up 40 miles from home.

Verb Phrases

23. land on, Informal. to reprimand; criticize: His mother landed on him for coming home so late.

Idioms

24. land/fall on one’s feet, feet(def 3).
25. see how the land lies, to investigate in advance; inform oneself of the facts of a situation before acting: You should see how the land lies before making a formal proposal.Compare lay of the land.

noun

1. 1. the act of coming to land, esp after a flight or sea voyage
   2. (as modifier)landing place
2. a place of disembarkation
3. the floor area at the top of a flight of stairs or between two flights of stairs

noun

1. the solid part of the surface of the earth as distinct from seas, lakes, etcRelated adjective: terrestrial
2. 1. ground, esp with reference to its use, quality, etc
   2. (in combination)land-grabber
3. rural or agricultural areas as contrasted with urban ones
4. farming as an occupation or way of life
5. law
   1. any tract of ground capable of being owned as property, together with any buildings on it, extending above and below the surface
   2. any hereditament, tenement, or other interest; realty
6. 1. a country, region, or area
   2. the people of a country, etc
7. a realm, sphere, or domain
8. economics the factor of production consisting of all natural resources
9. the unindented part of a grooved surface, esp one of the ridges inside a rifle bore
10. how the land lies the prevailing conditions or state of affairs

verb

11. to transfer (something) or go from a ship or boat to the shoreland the cargo
12. (intr) to come to or touch shore
13. to come down or bring (something) down to earth after a flight or jump
14. to come or bring to some point, condition, or state
15. (tr) angling to retrieve (a hooked fish) from the water
16. (tr) informal to win or obtainto land a job
17. (tr) informal to deliver (a blow)

noun

1. Edwin Herbert. 1909–91, US inventor of the Polaroid Land camera

noun plural Länder (ˈlɛndər)

1. 1. any of the federal states of Germany
   2. any of the provinces of Austria

n.c.1600, place for boats; of stairs, first attested 1789; from present participle of land (v.1). n.Old English land, lond, “ground, soil,” also “definite portion of the earth’s surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries,” from Proto-Germanic *landom (cf. Old Norse, Old Frisian Dutch, German, Gothic land), from PIE *lendh- “land, heath” (cf. Old Irish land, Middle Welsh llan “an open space,” Welsh llan “enclosure, church,” Breton lann “heath,” source of French lande; Old Church Slavonic ledina “waste land, heath,” Czech lada “fallow land”). Etymological evidence and Gothic use indicates the original sense was “a definite portion of the earth’s surface owned by an individual or home of a nation.” Meaning early extended to “solid surface of the earth,” which had been the sense of the root of Modern English earth. Original sense of land in English is now mostly found under country. To take the lay of the land is a nautical expression. In the American English exclamation land’s sakes (1846) land is a euphemism for Lord. v.1“to bring to land,” early 13c., from land (n.). Originally of ships; of fish, in the angling sense, from 1610s; hence figurative sense of “to obtain” (a job, etc.), first recorded 1854. Of aircraft, attested from 1916. Related: Landed; landing. v.2“to make contact, to hit home” (of a blow, etc.), by 1881, perhaps altered from lend in a playful sense, or else an extension of land (v.1). In addition to the idioms beginning with land

land in

land on

land up

also see:

cloud-cuckoo land

fall (land) on one’s feet

fat of the land

la-la land

lay of the land

never-never land