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This page has 77 definitions of land with English translations in 13 languages. Land is a noun, verb and romanization. Examples of how to use land in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .

See also: Land, länd, lǟnd, and -land

English land definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lęda (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

  1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
    Most insects live on land.
  2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
    There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
  3. A country or region.
    They come from a faraway land.
  4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
    wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
  6. (often in combination) realm, domain.
    I'm going to Disneyland.
    Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
  7. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
  8. (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
    He got an awful land when the police arrived.
  9. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  10. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
    • 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record (page 72)
      Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.
  11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
    Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
  12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
  13. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing[1].
  14. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
      • 2008 August 1, Steele, Lisa, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin, editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16:
        The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.
      • 2012 November 15, “One Way to Get Off”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller):
        The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.
  15. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
Hyponyms
 
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Translations
fright — see fright

Verb

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

  1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
    The plane is about to land.
  2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
    • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:
      10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
  3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
  4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
  5. (transitive) To bring to land.
    It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
    Use the net to land the fish.
  6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
    • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
  7. (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
    Too ugly to ever land a chick
  8. (transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.
    If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match
  9. (intransitive) (of a punch) To connect
    If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!
  10. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.
    Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.
Derived terms
Terms derived from the verb land
Translations
to arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water
to deliver — see deliver

Etymology 2

From Old English hland.

Noun

land (uncountable)

  1. lant; urine

References

  1. ^ 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary

Afrikaans land definition

Etymology

From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

Noun

land (plural lande)

  1. country; nation

Danish land definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, cognate with English land, German Land.

Noun

land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

  1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent)
    Synonyms: stat, nation
  2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
  3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
  4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise
Usage notes

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

Inflection
Declension of land
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landet lande landene
genitive lands landets landes landenes
Derived terms
Terms derived from land (“country, nation”)
Terms derived from land (“countryside”)
Terms derived from land (“(dry) land”)
Terms derived from land (“amusement park”)
  • badeland
  • legeland
  • Legoland
  • sommerland
  • vandland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

land

  1. imperative of lande

Dutch land definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

  1. land; country
  2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)
Derived terms
 
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: land
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: alanda, landi
  • Negerhollands: land, lant, lan
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: land, lantta
  • → Sranan Tongo: lanti
    • → Caribbean Javanese: lanti
    • → Kwinti: lanti
    • → Saramaccan: lánti
    • → Trió: ranti

Etymology 2

Verb

land

  1. first-person singular present indicative of landen
  2. imperative of landen

Elfdalian land definition

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

Noun

land n

  1. country; nation

Declension

Declension of land
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landeð land landę
accusative land landeð land landę
dative lande landę landum landum(e)
genitive — — — —

Faroese land definition

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

  1. land
  2. coast
  3. country, nation
  4. ground, soil
  5. the state
Declension
n8 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative land landið lond londini
Accusative land landið lond londini
Dative landi landinum londum londunum
Genitive lands landsins landa landanna
Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą, from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) urine
Declension
n8 Singular
Indefinite Definite
Nominative land landið
Accusative land landið
Dative landi landinum
Genitive lands landsins

French land definition

Noun

land m (plural lands or länder)

  1. land (region of Germany or Austria)

Gothic land definition

Romanization

land

  1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳

Icelandic land definition

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

  1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
  2. (countable) country
    Japan er fallegt land.
    Japan is a beautiful country.
  3. (uncountable) countryside, country
    Ég bý úti á landi.
    I live in the country.
  4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
  5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate
    Ég á þetta land og allt sem er á því.
    I own this land and everything on it.

Declension

declension of land
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landið lönd löndin
accusative land landið lönd löndin
dative landi landinu löndum löndunum
genitive lands landsins landa landanna

Derived terms

 

Middle English land definition

Noun

land

  1. Alternative form of lond

Norwegian Bokmål land definition

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑnː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑnː

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)

  1. country
  2. land
Derived terms
Terms derived from land

Etymology 2

Verb

land

  1. imperative of lande

References

Norwegian Nynorsk land definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

  1. country
    Noreg er eit land i nord.
    Norway is a country in the north.
  2. land
    Det var mangel på land for jordbruk.
    There was a lack of land for agriculture.
Derived terms
Terms derived from land

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

  1. urine from livestock

References

Old Danish land definition

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

Noun

land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

  1. land
    • 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.
      Mæth logh skal land byggæs.
      With law shall land be built.

Declension

Declension of land (Scanian system)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landit land landin
accusative land landit land landin
dative landi landinu landum landunum
genitive lanz lanzins landa landanna
The declension is unstable and should be treated as a guide. The case system was gradually being simplified from four to two cases. Even some nominative markers were sporadically kept in the Scanian dialect, although they mostly were replaced with the accusative endings from Old Norse.

Descendants

Old English land definition

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Frisian lond, Old Saxon land, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Old Norse land, and Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *landā (Welsh llan “enclosure”, Breton lann “heath”).

Pronunciation

Noun

land n

  1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
  2. a country
  3. region within a country: district, province
  4. the country, countryside
  5. owned or tilled land, an estate

Usage notes

  • Using the word land is the most common way to form country names. This can be done in one of two ways:
    • Prefixing the name of a people to the word land. Ex: Swēo (“Swede”) → Swēoland (“Sweden”) and *Unger (“a Hungarian”) → Ungerland (“Hungary”).
    • Prefacing land with the genitive plural form of a people, producing the literal meaning “land of ____ people.” Ex: Engla land (“England”, literally “land of the English”), Egypta land (“Egypt”, literally “land of the Egyptians”), and Siġelhearwena land (“Ethiopia”, literally “land of the Ethiopians”).
  • However, country names can also be formed other ways. For instance, words other than land are used: Franca (“a Frank”) → Francrīċe (“France”, literally “Frank kingdom”), Dene (“a Dane”) → Denemearc (“Denmark”, literally “Dane borderland”). It is also very common to use the name of a people for the country they inhabit: On þām dagum wæs Alexander ġeboren on Crēcum swā swā miċel ȳst cōme ofer ealne middanġeard (“In those days, Alexander was born in Greece [lit. in the Greeks] like a great storm coming over the whole world”). In addition, country names are sometimes loaned directly from Latin: Arabia, Isrāēl, Italia, Syria. Finally, some country names are simply idiomatic: Norþweġ (“Norway”, literally “north way”).
  • Unlike most words, land undergoes i-umlaut when combined with the suffix -isċ: inlendisċ (“native”), uplendisċ (“rural”).

Declension

Declension of land (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative land land
accusative land land
genitive landes landa
dative lande landum
Derived prefix terms
  • landādl f (“nostalgia for one's homeland”)
  • landāgend m (“landowner”)
  • landār f (“land holdings, a landed estate”)
  • landbegang m (“land tilling or dwelling”)
  • landbegenġa m (“husbandman, farmer”)
  • landbōc f (“land charter”)
  • landbrǣċe m (“land breaking or ploughing”)
  • landbūende (“dwelling in a land, living on earth”)
  • landbūend f (“a settlement, colony”)
  • landbūend m (“husbandman, a native”)
  • landbūnes f (“a settlement, a colony”)
  • landcēap m (“fine or tax on bought land”)
  • landcofa m (“the old city of Shechem”)
  • landefne n (“amount of land holdings”)
  • landfæsten n (“a land fastness, a stronghold”)
  • landfeoh n (“a land rent or tax”)
  • landfierding f (“terrestrial military operations”)
  • landfierd f (“land army”)
  • landfolc n (“the people of the land”)
  • landfruma m (“prince”)
  • landġehwearf n (“land swap”)
  • landġemaca m (“neighbor”)
  • landġemǣre n (“border”)
  • landġemierċe n (“border”)
  • landġesċeaft n (“the earth's creation & created things”)
  • landġeweorc n (“a land's main stronghold”)
  • landġewyrpe n (“earthen heaps cast up”)
  • landhæbbende (“landowning, land-having as a ruler”)
  • landhæfen f (“land holdings”)
  • landhere m (“land army”)
  • landhlāford m (“landlord”)
  • landhredding f (“redemption of mortgaged land”)
  • landielf f (“land elf”)
  • landlagu f (“law in a district”)
  • landlēas (“landless”)
  • landlēoda m (“a native of a land”)
  • landlēod m (“an inhabitant or the people of a land”)
  • landlyre m (“loss of land”)
  • landmann m (“a native of a land”)
  • landmearca m (“a territory”)
  • landmearc (“belonging to a land's boundaries”)
  • landmearc f (“boundary of a land or an estate”)
  • landopenung f (“a breaking up of land”)
  • landrǣden f (“district or country ordinance, disposition, or institution”)
  • landrest f (“grave”)
  • landrīċa f (“landlord”)
  • landrīċe n (“territory”)
  • landriht n (“the law of the land”)
  • landsǣta m (“settler, colonist”)
  • landsċeap n (“district or swath of land, landscape”)
  • landsċearu f (“a share or deal of land”)
  • landsċipe m (“a region or swath of land”)
  • landseten f (“land possession or occupation thereof”)
  • landsetla m (“a settler or tenant”)
  • landsidu m (“custom of the land”)
  • landsittende (“occupying land”)
  • landsōcn f (“land or country seeking”)
  • landspēdiġ (“rich in land holdings or estates”)
  • landspēd f (“land holdings”)
  • landsplott m (“a small plot of ground”)
  • landstede m (“a land”)
  • landstyċċe n (“a small plot of land”)
  • landwaru f (“people of land, a land”)
  • landweard m (“the warden of a land, a prince”)
  • landwela m (“the earth's wealth”)
  • lendan (“to land”)
 
Derived suffix terms
  • almeslond m (“land bequeathed in frankalmoigne, i.e. rich in land is rich in soul”)
  • ātland (“land for the growing of oats, oatland”)
  • bēanland (“land for the growing of beans, beanland”)
  • behātland (“the promised land”)
  • belandian (“to deprive of land, dispossess”)
  • belendan (“to deprive of land, dispossess”)
  • bēodland (“land to defray food consumption, as in a monastery”)
  • berland (“land for the growing of barley, bearland”)
  • bōcland (“freehold”)
  • bondeland (“bond or leased land under written conditions”)
  • burgland n (“city-land, urban landscape”)
  • būrland (“peasant land”)
  • cēapland (“bought land, compare to landcēap”)
  • ċiricland (“church-land, land belonging to the church”)
  • dūnland (“down or hilly land”)
  • ealdland (“long untilled or unploughed land”)
  • eardland (“fatherland”)
  • earningland (“land earned or made freehold”)
  • efnland (“even land, plains”)
  • eleland (“a strange or foreign land”)
  • eringlond n (“arable land”)
  • etelond n (“pasture land”)
  • ēþelland (“homeland”)
  • fæstland (“fortified land”)
  • feldland (“a field or plain, antonym to dūnland”)
  • fenland (“fenland”)
  • feohland (“pasture land”)
  • feorland n (“a far-off land”)
  • folcland (“land of the people”)
  • fōsterland (“land for fostering”)
  • friþland (“a land at peace with one's own”)
  • gafolland (“tenant land”)
  • ġebūrland (“peasant land/farmland”)
  • ġedālland (“land that may get owned by separate people, divided common land”)
  • ġehātland (“promised land”)
  • ġehlotland (“land doled out by lot”)
  • ġelanda m (“fellow countryman”)
  • ġelandian (“to land”)
  • ġenēatland (“tenant land”)
  • ġerēfland (“tributary land”)
  • hǣþfeldland (“moorland or heathland”)
  • hēafodland (“a headland or boundary”)
  • hēahlandrīċa (“a justice of the peace”)
  • hēahland (“the high ground”)
  • hereġeatland (“obligatory bequest of land to a lord or king”)
  • hwǣteland (“land for the growing of wheat”)
  • īeġland (“island”)
  • īeġland (“island”)
  • ierfeland (“heritable land”)
  • ierþland (“arable land”)
  • inland (“Demesne land”)
  • lǣnland (“loaned or leased land”)
  • līnland (“land for the growing of flax or linseed”)
  • mǣdland m (“meadow”)
  • mǣdweland (“meadow”)
  • mæstland (“land for the forthteeing of mast, i.e. tree nuts”)
  • mearcland (“borderland, or wasteland beyond the tilled land, marshland”)
  • mersċland (“marshland”)
  • mōrland (“moorland, the wild & hilly hinterland”)
  • muntland (“mountainous land”)
  • mynsterland (“land belonging to the monastery”)
  • nēahland (“neighboring country”)
  • norþland (“a northern land”)
  • rēfland (“sundorġerēfland, i.e. particular tributary lands”)
  • sacerdland (“land set aside for priests”)
  • sǣland (“maritime district”)
  • sandland (“the seashore”)
  • sċrūdland (“a land grant to buy clothing”)
  • sīdland (“wide open land”)
  • sundorland (“private land”)
  • sūþland (“a southern land”)
  • tēoþungland (“land subject to tithe payment”)
  • timberland (“timberland”)
  • tūnland (“land of a farm or estate”)
  • þēodland (“a populated region or country”)
  • unfriþland (“a hostile country”)
  • unland (“what is not land: sea, marsh, etc.”)
  • uppeland (“rural country away from town”)
  • ūtanlandes (“abroad”)
  • ūtland (“a foreign country or land”)
  • wealhland (“a foreign country or land”)
  • wīdland (“broad land, the earth's surface”)
  • wīnland (“grapevine land, wine producing region”)
 
Derived national terms
 

Descendants

References

Old Irish land definition

Noun

land ?

  1. Alternative spelling of lann

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
land
also lland after a proclitic 		land
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Norse land definition

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

Noun

land n (genitive lands, plural lǫnd)

  1. land

Declension

  Declension of land (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landit lǫnd lǫndin
accusative land landit lǫnd lǫndin
dative landi landinu lǫndum lǫndunum
genitive lands landsins landa landanna

Descendants

References

  • land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon land definition

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land. Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *landā (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

land n

  1. land

Declension

Declension of land (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative land land
accusative land land
genitive landes landō
dative lande landun
instrumental — —


Descendants

  • Middle Low German: lant
    • Dutch Low Saxon: laand
    • German Low German: Land

Old Swedish land definition

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

Noun

land n

  1. land

Declension

Declension of land (a-stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landit land landin
accusative land landit land landin
dative landi, -e landinu, -eno landum, -om landumin, -omen
genitive lands landsins landa landanna

Descendants

Polish land definition

Etymology

Borrowed from German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lant/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ant
  • Syllabification: land

Noun

land m inan

  1. Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
  2. (Poznań) countryside (rural area)
    Synonyms: prowincja, wieś

Declension

Declension of land
singular plural
nominative land landy
genitive landu landów
dative landowi landom
accusative land landy
instrumental landem landami
locative landzie landach
vocative landzie landy

Further reading

  • land in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • land in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian land definition

Etymology

From German Land.

Noun

land n (plural landuri)

  1. land (German and Austrian province)

Declension

Declension of land
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) land landul (niște) landuri landurile
genitive/dative (unui) land landului (unor) landuri landurilor
vocative landule landurilor

Spanish land definition

Etymology

From German Land.

Noun

land m (plural lands)

  1. one of the federal states of Germany
    • 2020 January 29, “El coronavirus ya se transmite fuera de China y se teme por su afectación al Mobile”, in La Vanguardia‎[2]:
      Alemania confirmó ayer los cuatro primeros casos de coronavirus de Wuhan en su territorio, todos pertenecientes a la misma empresa de componentes de automóvil del land alemán de Baviera.
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Further reading

Swedish land definition

Etymology

From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /land/, [l̪an̪ːd̪], (colloquial) /lan/
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  • Rhymes: -and

Noun

land n

  1. a land, a country, a nation, a state
  2. (uncountable) land, ground, earth, territory; as opposed to sea or air
    Land i sikte! ― Land ho!
    Efter kriget tvangs förlorande staterna avträda mycket land.
    After the war, the losing states had to cede much land.
  3. (uncountable) land, countryside, earth, ground suitable for farming; as opposed to towns and cities
    livet på landet ― life in the countryside
    stad och land ― town and country
  4. a garden plot, short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground for growing vegetables, flowers, etc.

Declension

Declension of land 1
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative land landet länder länderna
Genitive lands landets länders ländernas
Declension of land 2-3
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative land landet — —
Genitive lands landets — —
Declension of land 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative land landet land landen
Genitive lands landets lands landens

Synonyms

  • (country): nation
  • (neither sea nor air): backe, landbacke, mark
  • (ground suitable for farming): mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)

Derived terms

 

References

Zealandic land definition

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lant.

Noun

land n (plural )

  1. land
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