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| Shopping | The largest selection of LAND products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | lae'nd |
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| Rhymes | ampersand, armband, backhand, and 87 more rhymes in aend... |
| Meaning | Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land. |
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| Examples | "land vehicles" |
| Contrary | sea; air |
| Similar | onshore; overland |
| Meaning | The land on which real estate is located. |
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| Examples | "he built the house on land leased from the city" |
| Broader | real property, real estate, realty, immovable |
| Narrower | farmstead; homestead; no man's land |
| 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). |
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| Examples | "the land had never been plowed" |
| Synonyms | ground, soil |
| Broader | object, physical object |
| Narrower | badlands; bottomland, bottom; coastland; cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth; overburden; permafrost; polder; rangeland; scablands; turf, sod, sward, greensward; wetland |
| Meaning | The solid part of the earth's surface. |
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| Examples | "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land" |
| Synonyms | dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma |
| Part of | Earth, world, globe |
| Broader | object, physical object |
| Narrower | archipelago; beachfront; cape, ness; coastal plain; floor; foreland; forest, woodland, timberland, timber; island; isthmus; landmass; mainland; neck; oxbow; peninsula; plain, field, champaign; slash; wonderland |
| Instances | America |
| Verbs | land; land; land; land; land |
| Meaning | Territory over which rule or control is exercised. |
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| Examples | "he made it the law of the land" |
| Synonyms | domain, demesne |
| Part of | country, state, land |
| Broader | region |
| Narrower | archduchy; barony; duchy, dukedom; earldom; emirate; empire, imperium; fiefdom; grand duchy; viscounty; khanate; kingdom, realm; principality, princedom; Kingdom of God; sheikdom, sheikhdom; suzerainty |
| Meaning | A domain in which something is dominant. |
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| Examples | "a land of make-believe" |
| Synonyms | kingdom, realm |
| Broader | sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena |
| Narrower | lotusland, lotus land |
| Meaning | Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use. |
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| Examples | "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" |
| Synonyms | estate, landed estate, acres, demesne |
| Broader | real property, real estate, realty, immovable |
| Narrower | freehold; glebe; leasehold; smallholding; homestead; fief, feoff; barony; countryseat; Crown land; manor; seigneury, seigniory, signory; hacienda; plantation; entail |
| Meaning | The people who live in a nation or country. |
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| Synonyms | nation, country |
| Members | national, subject |
| Broader | people |
| Narrower | Dutch, Dutch people; British, British people, Brits; English, English people; Irish, Irish people; French, French people; Spanish, Spanish people; Swiss, Swiss people |
| Meaning | A politically organized body of people under a single government. |
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| Examples | "an industrialized land" |
| Synonyms | state, nation, country, commonwealth, res publica, body politic |
| Parts | estate, estate of the realm |
| Broader | political unit, political entity |
| Narrower | commonwealth country; developing country; Dominion; foreign country; Reich; rogue state, renegade state, rogue nation; suzerain; sea power; world power, major power, great power, power, superpower; city state, city-state; ally |
| Instances | Eelam, Tamil Eelam |
| Meaning | United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991). |
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| Synonyms | Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land |
| Instance of | industrialist; inventor, discoverer, artificer |
| Meaning | Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life. |
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| Examples | "there's no work on the land any more" |
| Synonyms | farming |
| Broader | occupation, business, job, line of work, line |
| Meaning | Reach or come to rest. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Model | The airplane is sure to land |
| Examples | "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" |
| Synonyms | set down |
| Caused by | land, put down, bring down |
| Broader | arrive, get, come |
| Narrower | alight, light, perch; force-land; beach; port; disembark, debark, set down; touch down; undershoot; belly-land; crash land |
| Nouns | land; landing; lander |
| Meaning | Cause to come to the ground. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely" |
| Synonyms | put down, bring down |
| Category | air travel, aviation, air |
| Cause to | land, set down |
| Broader | arrive, get, come |
| Nouns | land; landing |
| Meaning | Bring into a different state. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "this may land you in jail" |
| Synonyms | bring |
| Broader | change, alter, modify |
| Meaning | Bring ashore. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" |
| Broader | bring, convey, take |
| Narrower | ground, run aground |
| Nouns | land; landing |
| Meaning | Deliver (a blow). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
| Examples | "He landed several blows on his opponent's head" |
| Broader | deliver, drive home |
| Meaning | Arrive on shore. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s |
| Examples | "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" |
| Synonyms | set ashore, shore |
| Broader | arrive, get, come |
| Nouns | land; landing |
| Meaning | Shoot at and force to come down. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" |
| Synonyms | down, shoot down |
| Nouns | land |
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