What is the meaning of Land?

noun

• The land on which real estate is located.
  • usage: "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. )
  • usage: "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"
  • synonyms: ground, soil
• Territory over which rule or control is exercised.
  • usage: "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
  • synonyms: domain, demesne
• The solid part of the earth's surface.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
• The territory occupied by a nation.
  • usage: "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
  • synonyms: country, state
• A domain in which something is dominant.
  • usage: "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
  • synonyms: kingdom, realm
• Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use.
  • usage: "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
  • synonyms: estate, landed estate, acres, demesne
• The people who live in a nation or country.
  • usage: "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"
  • synonyms: nation, country
• A politically organized body of people under a single government.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: state, nation, country, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
• United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991.
  • synonyms: Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land
• Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life.
  • usage: "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
  • synonyms: farming

verb

• Reach or come to rest.
  • usage: "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul"
  • synonyms: set down
• Cause to come to the ground.
  • usage: "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
  • synonyms: put down, bring down
• Bring into a different state.
  • usage: "this may land you in jail"
  • synonyms: bring
• Bring ashore.
  • usage: "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
• Deliver (a blow. )
  • usage: "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
• Arrive on shore.
  • usage: "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
  • synonyms: set ashore, shore
• Shoot at and force to come down.
  • usage: "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
  • synonyms: down, shoot down