land mine

Questions about land mine

What is another word for land mine?

It depends which land mine you mean. In the sense “an explosive mine hidden underground; explodes when stepped on or driven over”, the synonyms are ground-emplaced mine, booby trap. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of land mine?

WordNet records no antonym for land mine. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for land mine come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of land mine

• Full entry for land mineAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for land mineWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.