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land
noun as in earth's surface; ownable property
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acreage, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, district, earth, estate, farmland, field, ground, home, homeland, nation, parcel, plot, province, ranch, real estate, region, shore, soil, terrain, territory, tract
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acres, dirt, expanse, extent, farming, grounds, holding, loam, mainland, manor, purlieu, quarry, realty, sod, stretch, sweep, tillage
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verb as in arrive, come to rest on
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bring in, check in, come ashore, come down, come in, come to berth, descend upon, drop anchor, flatten out, get down, level off, light on, make land, put down, put in, set down, set on deck, sit down, splash down, take down
Example Sentences
The first flight carrying a cross-Channel small boat migrant, an Indian national, landed in Paris on 18 September.
Dior’s first revamped boutique drew me in from the second my eyes landed on the window display.
Actor Kit Williamson, a Hollywood friend who has tackled many of his own interior design projects, says Hamilton and Poli’s home is more than just a safe place to land.
He’s dismantled U.S. humanitarian assistance to impoverished lands and put pressure on allies to spend more money on war preparations, not welfare programs or foreign aid.
Author of the analysis and Cities & Regions economist at Oxford Economics, Alexander Harvey adds: "High housing costs, fuelled by limited land availability and regulatory constraints are... pushing workers further away from their place of work."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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