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say it: LAN-ding
landing is a noun meaning "an intermediate platform in a staircase". It carries 4 recorded senses.
structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface)
“the plane made a smooth landing”
“his landing on his feet was catlike”
the act of coming to land after a voyage
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 landing 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.