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say it: land
land is a noun and verb meaning "the land on which real estate is located". It carries 18 recorded senses.
the land on which real estate is located
“he built the house on land leased from the city”
material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
“the land had never been plowed”
“good agricultural soil”
the solid part of the earth's surface
“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”
the territory occupied by a nation
“he returned to the land of his birth”
“he visited several European countries”
extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
“the family owned a large estate on Long Island”
a politically organized body of people under a single government
“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”
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
“farming is a strenuous life”
“there's no work on the land any more”
cause to come to the ground
“the pilot managed to land the airplane safely”
air travel
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for land come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.