English noun: land |
1. | land (possession) the land on which real estate is located |
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| Samples | He built the house on land leased from the city.
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| Broader (hypernym) | immovable, real estate, real property, realty |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | farmstead, homestead, no man's land |
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2. | land (object) 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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| Samples | The land had never been plowed. Good agricultural soil.
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| Synonyms | ground, soil |
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| Broader (hypernym) | object, physical object |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | badlands, bottom, bottomland, coastland, cultivated land, farmland, greensward, overburden, permafrost, ploughland, plowland, polder, rangeland, scablands, sod, sward, tillage, tilled land, tilth, turf, wetland |
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3. | land (location) territory over which rule or control is exercised |
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| Samples | His domain extended into Europe. He made it the law of the land.
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| Synonyms | demesne, domain |
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| Broader (hypernym) | region |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | archduchy, barony, duchy, dukedom, earldom, emirate, empire, fiefdom, grand duchy, imperium, khanate, kingdom, princedom, principality, realm, sheikdom, sheikhdom, suzerainty, viscounty |
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| Part meronym | country, land, state |
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4. | land (object) the solid part of the earth's surface |
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| Samples | 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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| Broader (hypernym) | object, physical object |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | archipelago, beachfront, cape, champaign, coastal plain, field, floor, foreland, forest, island, isthmus, land mass, landmass, mainland, neck, ness, oxbow, peninsula, plain, slash, timber, timberland, wonderland, woodland |
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| Instance hyponym | America |
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| Part meronym | Earth, globe, world |
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5. | land (location) the territory occupied by a nation |
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| Samples | He returned to the land of his birth. He visited several European countries.
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| Synonyms | country, state |
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| Broader (hypernym) | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | African country, African nation, Asian country, Asian nation, banana republic, buffer country, buffer state, country of origin, European country, European nation, fatherland, homeland, kingdom, mother country, motherland, native land, North American country, North American nation, South American country, South American nation, sultanate, tax haven |
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| Instance hyponym | Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahama Islands, Bahamas, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ceylon, Commonwealth of Australia, Commonwealth of Dominica, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Comoros, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Dutch East Indies, East Timor, Etruria, Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros, Federated States of Micronesia, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Fiji, Friendly Islands, Grenada, Haiti, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Samoa, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Kingdom of Tonga, Kiribati, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nauru, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Cape Verde, Republic of Cuba, Republic of Cyprus, Republic of Fiji, Republic of Haiti, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Maldives, Republic of Malta, Republic of Mauritius, Republic of Nauru, Republic of Palau, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of the Philippines, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Vanuatu, Rus, Russia, Russia, Russian Federation, Saint Christopher-Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo, Sao Thome e Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, Sao Tome e Principe, Seychelles, Sion, Solomon Islands, Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Thomas and Principe, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, State of Israel, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, TT, TT, Turkey, Turkmen, Turkmenia, Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Ukrayina, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Upper Volta, USSR, Vanuatu, Western Samoa, Yisrael, Zion |
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| Part holonym | demesne, domain, land, midland |
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| Member holonym | department, province, state |
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6. | land (state) a domain in which something is dominant |
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| Samples | 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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| Broader (hypernym) | area, arena, domain, field, orbit, sphere |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | lotus land, lotusland |
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7. | land (possession) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use |
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| Samples | The family owned a large estate on Long Island.
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| Synonyms | acres, demesne, estate, landed estate |
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| Broader (hypernym) | immovable, real estate, real property, realty |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | barony, countryseat, Crown land, entail, feoff, fief, freehold, glebe, hacienda, homestead, leasehold, manor, plantation, seigneury, seigniory, signory, smallholding |
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8. | land (group) the people who live in a nation or country |
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| Samples | A statement that sums up the nation's mood. The news was announced to the nation. The whole country worshipped him.
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| Synonyms | country, nation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | people |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | British, British people, Brits, Dutch, Dutch people, English, English people, French, French people, Irish, Irish people, Spanish, Spanish people, Swiss, Swiss people |
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| Member holonym | national, subject |
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9. | land (group) a politically organized body of people under a single government |
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| Samples | 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.
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| Synonyms | body politic, commonwealth, country, nation, res publica, state |
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| Broader (hypernym) | political entity, political unit |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ally, city state, city-state, commonwealth country, developing country, Dominion, foreign country, great power, major power, power, Reich, renegade state, rogue nation, rogue state, sea power, superpower, suzerain, world power |
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| Instance hyponym | Eelam, Tamil Eelam |
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| Part holonym | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates |
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10. | Land (person) 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 |
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| Instance hypernym | artificer, discoverer, industrialist, inventor |
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11. | land (act) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life |
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| Samples | Farming is a strenuous life. There's no work on the land any more.
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| Synonyms | farming |
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| Broader (hypernym) | business, job, line, line of work, occupation |
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English verb: land |
1. | land (motion) reach or come to rest |
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| Samples | The bird landed on the highest branch. The plane landed in Istanbul.
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| Examples | The airplane is sure to land |
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| Synonyms | set down |
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| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP |
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| Broader (hypernym) | arrive, come, get |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | alight, beach, belly-land, crash land, debark, disembark, force-land, light, perch, port, set down, touch down, undershoot |
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2. | land (motion) cause to come to the ground |
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| Samples | The pilot managed to land the airplane safely.
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| Synonyms | bring down, put down |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP |
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| Broader (hypernym) | arrive, come, get |
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| Cause | land, set down |
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| Domain category | air, air travel, aviation |
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3. | land (change) bring into a different state |
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| Samples | This may land you in jail.
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| Synonyms | bring |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify |
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4. | land (motion) bring ashore |
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| Samples | The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island.
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bring, convey, take |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ground, run aground, strand, strand |
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5. | land (possession) deliver (a blow) |
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| Samples | He landed several blows on his opponent's head.
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something PP |
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| Broader (hypernym) | deliver, drive home |
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6. | land (motion) arrive on shore |
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| Samples | The ship landed in Pearl Harbor.
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| Synonyms | set ashore, shore |
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| Pattern of use | Something ----s |
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| Broader (hypernym) | arrive, come, get |
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7. | land (motion) shoot at and force to come down |
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| Samples | The enemy landed several of our aircraft.
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| Synonyms | down, shoot down |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something |
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