land

nounearth's surface; ownable property
verbarrive, come to rest on
verbachieve, acquire

Synonyms for land

noun earth's surface; ownable property

Antonyms for land

acquiring

verb. obtain or receive

Word Origin & History

Old English land, lond, "ground, soil," also "definite portion of the earth's surface, home region of a person or a people, territory marked by political boundaries," from Proto-Germanic *landom (cf. Old Norse, Old Frisian Dutch, German, Gothic land), from PIE *lendh- "land, heath" (cf. Old Irish land, Middle Welsh llan "an open space," Welsh llan "enclosure, church," Breton lann "heath," source of French lande; Old Church Slavonic ledina "waste land, heath," Czech lada "fallow land").

Etymological evidence and Gothic use indicates the original sense was "a definite portion of the earth's surface owned by an individual or home of a nation." Meaning early extended to "solid surface of the earth," which had been the sense of the root of Modern English earth. Original sense of land in English is now mostly found under country. To take the lay of the land is a nautical expression. In the American English exclamation land's sakes (1846) land is a euphemism for Lord.

Example Sentences for land

It seems pleasant to be on land after being on shipboard so many weeks.

Land of the sunshine, the deep blue sky, and snow-topped hills!

His name was Cup and he too had inherited his land from a hundred other Cups who had gone before.

Mesopotamia, therefore, meant a stretch of land "between the rivers."

Soon the news of his terrible deed spread throughout the land.

The land of Phoenicia had always been a counting-house without a soul.

Knife, however, must promise to leave his land to his son-in-law in case he died.

The Sumerians take possession of the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates.

"Another tribe is trying to break into our land," he said to himself.

Mr. Malbone would hardly imagine you had been bred in a Christian land.

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Antonyms for land

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