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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
This season, may its luck, ease and little joys land on yours.
Instead of wandering around state fairs and talking to the locals, he would land in a field in his personal helicopter and take some kids up for a ride.
At the time, Blue Origin was trailing SpaceX, which by then had demonstrated an ability to land its rocket boosters—a key step toward making space travel more economically viable.
But the biggest perk of this design, according to proponents, is that it allows apartment buildings to go up on small plots of land otherwise too cramped for the modern American apartment block.
This is where the robot, also known as a land drone, comes in place of traditional troop deployments.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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