What does land mean

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land

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

land

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a distant landliterary (= a country that is a long way away)

▪ He fled to a distant land.

a far-off land/country/place etc

▪ visitors from a far-off land

▪ far-off galaxies

a land of opportunity (=a country where people have a lot of good opportunities)

▪ America was then seen as a land of opportunity.

a plane lands (=moves safely down onto the ground)

▪ Because of the fog, our plane had to land at Luton.

by air/sea/land/road/rail etc

▪ All supplies are transported by air.

catch/land a fish

▪ Pete caught a really big fish.

common land

crash landing

▪ He was forced to make a crash-landing in the desert.

desert country/land

▪ Large parts of Oman are desert country.

dry land (=not the sea)

▪ It was good to get off the ship onto dry land again.

dry land

▪ After three weeks at sea we were glad to be back on dry land again.

forbidding place/land/landscape etc

▪ We sailed past the island’s rather dark and forbidding cliffs.

forced landing

▪ The plane had to make a forced landing in a field.

Holy Land, the

irrigated land/farms/crops

land a job (=get a job, especially unexpectedly)

▪ My husband finally landed a job in marketing.

land a part (=be given a part)

▪ He landed a part in a cop show.

land a plane (=bring it safely down onto the ground)

▪ The pilot managed to land the plane safely on the beach.

land a punch (=manage to hit someone)

▪ Then I began to land some good punches.

land a role (=be given a role)

▪ In 1982 he landed a role in the musical 'Destry Rides Again'.

land agent

land bridge

▪ Thousands of years ago, people crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America.

land grab

▪ Officials denounced the settlers’ land grab.

land office

land reform

land registry

land use

▪ Our department is responsible for establishing the guidelines for land use in the county.

landed aristocracy (=who own a lot of land)

▪ the landed aristocracy

landed gentry (=gentry who own land)

▪ a member of the landed gentry

land/get yourself in hot water

▪ She got herself in hot water with the authorities.

landing craft

landing gear

landing net

landing stage

landing strip

land/property/currency etc holding

▪ companies with large property holdings

launch/landing/helicopter pad

▪ The hospital has built a helicopter pad.

live off the land (=live by growing or finding their own food)

▪ Most people in the countryside live off the land.

never-never land

Promised Land, the

property/land values

▪ Property values have fallen sharply.

sighted land

▪ The sailors gave a shout of joy when they sighted land.

snow/land/slum etc clearance

▪ flooding caused by forest clearance

soft landing

▪ Hopes for a soft landing have faded.

the landowning/landed class (=the people who own land)

▪ This imposition of taxes angered the landed classes.

till the soil/land/fields etc

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

agricultural

▪ It is now a thriving township of 12,000 people in the heart of the country's best agricultural land.

▪ With less and less agricultural land to divide among heirs, the economics of having large families has been altered.

▪ It is high country, with some moderately good agricultural land and substantial deposits of lignite and nonferrous metals.

▪ The stored water could then be used to irrigate adjacent agricultural land, and hydropower revenues would cover the inevitable losses.

▪ In the twentieth century, three main changes have occurred in this ownership of agricultural land.

▪ There are also farmers with agricultural land.

▪ The Victorian/Tudor style mansion is set in eight acres of mixed agricultural land, woodland and gardens.

▪ She could smell the chemical effluent off the agricultural land: she couldn't remember having noticed that stench before.

arable

▪ The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land, punctuated by low, brooding barns.

▪ But cold weather and a scarcity of food on arable land usually brings numbers down with the onset of winter.

▪ Enclosure Only half the arable land was still open fields in 1700.

▪ Moreover, the arable land is more suited to collective as opposed to subsistence farming.

▪ Conflicting views' Of course arable land in some places is going out of cultivation because of erosion and other destructive forces.

▪ Both meadow and arable land was allocated in this way.

▪ Wood Walton stands an oasis, surrounded by sunken arable land.

▪ This use of a pole to measure arable land is very ancient.

derelict

▪ The size of the place is breathtaking. Derelict land is occupied by a structure anyone may wonder at.

▪ Where possible we use derelict land first - for instance this estate here was built on the site of a factory.

▪ Looks at patterns of development, the approach of house builders to derelict land, and brownfield risk analysis.

▪ The new facilities will be sited in a former rundown building in Main Street and on adjoining derelict land.

▪ But one has to be careful, a piece of derelict land can be like a magnet in attracting further dereliction.

▪ Maybe if they had we would have transformed a piece of derelict land.

▪ They involve a variety of practical conservation activities - energy-saving, waste recycling and the greening of derelict land.

dry

▪ On dry land the nearest equivalents of the filter-feeders are the grazers.

▪ Stretches and deep body work rarely achieved on dry land can be performed in the water.

▪ The horses heaved out of the water and stood, blowing and dripping, on a ridge of dry land.

▪ The swelling on the horizon now seemed like dry land in the middle of an undulating ocean of light.

▪ She was looking forward to standing on dry land once more.

▪ He was treading on dry land.

▪ Our group learned the basics on a dry land simulator - a Topper without the sail.

foreign

▪ However, he may receive some additional benefits which recognise the fact that he is working in a foreign land.

▪ In a foreign land, one sees everything from an angle.

▪ We all had an extra cup of coffee to celebrate meeting in a foreign land.

▪ Serving a company in a foreign land, for example, is no longer either a privilege or a hardship.

▪ The first proposed rebuilding the Foreign Office on land only owned by the Crown at that date.

▪ Metaphor is no mere tourist in a foreign land, it is a bootlegger.

▪ These days Valdez is taking political science classes at Pima Community College and planning to study in a foreign land.

native

▪ I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land, wielding an axe against some giant tree.

▪ Years later, Bishop Gregory returned to his native land.

▪ Never see my native land again, mountains, moorlands and glens, apart from brief holiday excursions?

▪ Then, as now, my native land was at a crossroads.

▪ Then it had been filled again, but this time there were no soft fruits from her native land.

▪ According to Tom, Lee brought the salad from his native land.

▪ When he asked her why, she shyly confessed that she was pining for the snows of her native land.

▪ Not because she had lost in her native land.

private

▪ Other companies in sectors such as oil and communications must also have way-leaves for work they want to carry out on private land.

▪ Even Aristotle complained that communal property always looked worse than private lands.

▪ None of this applies to private land, because anyone is free to seek permission from any landowner.

▪ The medicine wheel is on private land, and a trail used by ranch vehicles has scattered those rocks.

▪ Then again, the pillbox was on private land so maybe that hadn't been a problem.

▪ There is no large-scale effort to stamp out the fires because, in most cases, they are burning on private land.

▪ As the spring is on private land he had to obtain the permission of the owner, but this was readily given.

public

▪ All public lands and forests are shut to recreation use-they're not letting people through.

▪ Norton is very much of the extraction-over-conservation school when it comes to public lands.

▪ Aristotle noted a distinction between income from the public land and that from the citizens' private estates.

▪ Restraint by those using public lands is absolutely necessary.

▪ Nor is conservation land the only public land eligible for restitution.

▪ Fife Symington, most public lands in Arizona are under strict fire restrictions.

▪ They also sold infrastructure and public sector housing land to the councils at historic cost plus interest rather than developed land value.

▪ The bill would pose too much danger to national forests and other public lands, she said.

vacant

▪ The ranch remains the largest vacant swath of land in Santee.

▪ Much more interesting are the larger complexes which occupy the vacant land immediately behind the main frontages.

▪ The city is in the final stages of annexing a 28-mile swath of vacant land south of town.

▪ Public- and private-sector users were both reluctant to put vacant land on the market.

▪ In many cities, most vacant land was not owned by local government but by the private sector and statutory authorities.

▪ Kenski points to Prop 105, a referendum which exempted vacant land owned by cemeteries from taxation.

waste

▪ In 1875 and 1876 the Corporation purchased 3,000 acres of the open waste lands of the forest manors.

▪ The wound would immediately heal, the waste land become green, and the saving hero himself be installed as king.

▪ Punctured plastic bags blow across the adjacent plots of waste land.

▪ He promised to plant grasses on waste land.

▪ This place used to be what you could call a natural piece of waste land.

▪ Domesday Book makes it clear that large areas were wooded and that waste and underused land was widespread in 1086.

▪ Caravans stand on muddy plots of waste land.

▪ The market stretched across waste land scribbled out by tracks of vehicles.

■ NOUN

area

▪ It also plans to increase the land area 15% through reclamation projects.

▪ Combined, they have about one-third the population of the United States on about two-fifths the land area.

▪ The National Trust owns a considerable land area, much of it of importance for nature conservation.

▪ A very small land area is included in this zone.

▪ Please have some pity on the area, which is the arid land area of the country.

▪ However, the field patterns over the land area in the upper left of the image are blurred by the smoothing operation.

reform

▪ Some land reforms have embraced soil conservation as a sine qua non of long term productivity gains by land reform beneficiaries.

▪ The Communists have never published an official count of those killed in the land reform, but thousands died.

▪ If we are to do better than just preserving a few isolated museum forests, then major land reform is essential.

▪ There was talk of land reform and demonstrations by peasants.

▪ The agreement bound the country to a programme of land reform whose implementation would have cost billions of dollars.

▪ Settlement and land reform schemes have to be administered in the interest of capitalist agriculture.

▪ Overall the patterns established by the 1946 land reform have been remarkably enduring.

▪ Genuine land reform is not about breaking up highly productive commercial farms into little plots for subsistence farmers.

use

▪ Rather, it sees development proceeding within a tightly controlled land use strategy.

▪ Finally, local government is responsible for some types of regulation, for example land use or zoning laws.

▪ The nub of the technical job to be done was the control of land use.

▪ It is the only institute in Britain with a specific remit to undertake research on land use.

▪ Milk and meat are both produced economically, and the breed's smallness enables tight stocking for more efficient land use.

▪ In 1999 the mining industry withdrew in frustration from several key land use planning tables.

▪ One barrier to the regulation of rural land use change is the absence of planning controls over farming and forestry.

▪ The declines of both networks coincided with extensive changes in land use in their areas of operation.

■ VERB

buy

▪ Maybe the money he earns abroad will enable him to buy more land.

▪ The cash will be used to fund a major investment programme, including buying new housing land and expanding its quarrying business.

▪ Scottsdale voters took the most decisive action last May, approving a sales-tax increase to buy land in the McDowell Mountains.

▪ A private citizen, secretly acting for the clergy, had pretended he was buying the land for non-religious purposes.

▪ The peopIe who bought the land some years ago tore down every-thing.

▪ So he bought the land around the factory, and the village now covers one thousand acres.

▪ I have bought the land your house is built on.

farm

▪ For a start, subsidies themselves encourage over-intensive farming by making it economic to farm marginal land.

▪ The last vestiges of serfdom had disappeared in the sixteenth century, and the peasants farmed the land as leaseholders or sharecroppers.

▪ But at least it pays no rent and in practice it is secure so long as it farms the land and avoids bankruptcy.

▪ But the woods were saved, thanks to the difficulties of farming on land that is a dumping ground of glacial fill.

▪ We often say that intensive farming ruins the land, but in my view any form of farming does so.

▪ Thousands of tenant farmers who have traditionally farmed the land, have already been displaced.

hold

▪ However, its benefits were confined to those already holding land, and it did nothing to relieve the problem of landlessness.

▪ S., most timber is grown on privately held land and is sold at auction.

▪ The leaders accepted baptism for themselves and their people, and promised to hold their lands as vassals of the Frankish king.

▪ He would exact a monthly fee from each vendor, though the markets were held on city land.

▪ To be eligible, a corporation or individual will have to have held the land for at least five years.

▪ For nearly a week the fist of the frost has held tight to the land.

own

▪ The National Trust owns a considerable land area, much of it of importance for nature conservation.

▪ They decided we owned more land than we needed, and they figured out a way to get it.

▪ In fact, it was the ogre who owned the land that the king had just driven through.

▪ The king, after all, owned the land, the people, every animal and everything that grew.

▪ Petersburg owns the land, which has been an active cattle ranch for years.

▪ The king also in theory owned all the land.

▪ Architect Simon said the city owned the land up to 10 inches from the theater.

sell

▪ If you have planning permission it's a hell of a lot easier to sell land.

▪ They began to sell their land and, in a final bid to avoid starvation, started to flock to Calcutta.

▪ Using the techniques of forum theatre, the class try to persuade the old man to sell his house and land.

▪ In addition, the bill authorizes the General Services Administration to sell federal land in Florida that is considered surplus.

▪ Farmers are looking for free drainage schemes and for ways of selling their land to us.

▪ Or maybe just sell the land for condos.

▪ Small peasant farmers, who own their own plots have often been compelled to sell land through poverty and debts.

▪ In the meantime he can only sell his land subject to the conditions of the option agreement.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a power in the land

▪ Even so, it had to grow, to strengthen itself and impose itself as a power in the land.

▪ These courts had existed for centuries already, ever since the medieval Templars had been a power in the land.

fall/land on your feet

▪ After some ups and downs, young Mr Davison has landed on his feet.

▪ Even in an industry that shrinks faster than microwave bacon, the good people landed on their feet.

▪ Forgive the cliché, but for once I have fallen on my feet.

▪ He pushed the floor, and flipped over in the air, landing on his feet.

▪ However he landed on his feet.

▪ Jonathon is a trained musician filling in as a cleaner between jobs and he fell on his feet at the Oxford Playhouse.

▪ This is a company that tends to land on its feet.

in La-la Land

landed gentry/family/nobility

▪ But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way.

▪ For the landed nobility, the impact of Emancipation was deeply disturbing.

▪ It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.

▪ Redmond is Harry Trench, a new doctor and youngest son of landed gentry with a small investment income.

▪ The landed gentry planted for their grandchildren avenues of hardwood that they themselves would never see.

▪ The landed nobility provided tsarism with a perilously narrow social base.

▪ The King appointed them to high offices of state, which the aristocracy and landed gentry considered to be their prerogative.

▪ The main burden borne by the peasantry remained that of the State and the landed nobility.

live off the fat of the land

spread of land/water

▪ Spooked planes buzzed the limo roof at the black spread of water near La Guardia.

spy out the land

▪ Certainly he would have gone down there alone to spy out the land and check on his property.

▪ She enticed into her house the party Odysseus dispatched to spy out the land, and there she changed them into swine.

the lay of the land

▪ He's got to get the lay of the land before he makes any decisions.

▪ A lot of people, especially those new to the city, have no concept of the lay of the land.

the length and breadth of the area/country/land etc

▪ But the Jaipur is hoping that eventually passengers will be eating their food the length and breadth of the country.

▪ They dogged him the length and breadth of the country, wherever the small troupe of players appeared.

the lie of the land

virgin land/forest/soil/snow etc

▪ After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway.

▪ Another road runs south, through the oilfields, and is constantly being extended into virgin forest.

▪ Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.

▪ In low range, it walks with authority across a field covered by a couple of feet of packed virgin snow.

▪ In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves.

▪ Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established.

▪ The trees here were all larger and growing much more vigorously than in the virgin forest above.

▪ Within an hour, Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ A mall is being built on the land near the lake.

▪ Captain Edwards brought the plane in for a perfect landing.

▪ Each family was given a small piece of land where they could grow food for themselves.

▪ Get off my land!

▪ high land prices

▪ His travels in foreign lands provided him with the inspiration for many of his poems and songs.

▪ It was our dream to have our own land to raise cattle on.

▪ Our story takes place in a far-off land, long, long ago.

▪ Reptiles reproduce by laying eggs on land or giving birth to live young.

▪ Some repairs to the boat will have to wait until we're back on dry land.

▪ Their journey took them to many foreign lands.

▪ They had defeated the enemy on land and at sea.

▪ They moved to the country and bought some land.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Public- and private-sector users were both reluctant to put vacant land on the market.

▪ There were extremists who said that Britain could be driven from the land.

▪ This world is just about empty and the unoccupied land is probably fertile.

▪ Though we looked around for other pieces of land, my enthusiasm for the project had disappeared.

▪ Until recently, crown land was leased to farmers on condition that they cleared a certain amount each year.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

heavily

▪ The stone swung up and landed heavily on the floor.

▪ He landed heavily on gravel by the track.

▪ Consequently, you fall over or jack-knife forwards the first time you land heavily.

▪ Pain flared in his thigh wound as he landed heavily on his injured leg.

▪ Tony jumped from high up, landed heavily and pulled a face.

▪ He fell, landing heavily on his butt, then flattening out on to his back.

▪ Being a large woman, she'd landed heavily, badly hurting her left hip, her right knee and ankle.

▪ He crashed into a table, somersaulted over it and landed heavily on the carpet.

safely

▪ As his aircraft reached Kabul on May 30 it was hit by a rocket, but landed safely.

▪ Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side.

▪ But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table.

▪ He enjoyed the dance, and, returning with his Confederate escort, was safely landed in his own lines before daylight.

▪ Take care when you throw the opponent and always allow them to land safely.

▪ Boardman landed safely, but after refuelling, took-off and lost control, and was killed when the aircraft flipped over.

▪ For the police squad it was a new experience, but they had seen how it was done and all landed safely.

▪ By clinging to a bannister he miraculously managed to land safely.

■ NOUN

aircraft

▪ The relief commission has one aircraft that can land there, a Twin Otter.

▪ The aircraft landed at Cannon International Airport and were taxied down city streets to the auction site.

▪ As the aircraft landed and the pressmen poured out, they were met by a hoard of local photographers.

▪ On the airfields of Rio de Janeiro an aircraft lands or takes off every minute.

▪ The aircraft swooped in to land, almost touching the little buildings of Kowloon.

▪ The carrier's flight deck is too short for its aircraft to land on and putting it right will cost around £50m.

airport

▪ We have to land at another airport before we finish our journey.

▪ The aircraft landed at Cannon International Airport and were taxied down city streets to the auction site.

▪ Not only did Bushika become lost, he flew completely off the official map to land at Budapest international airport.

base

▪ One possibility was to force it to land at an army base remote to Teheran.

blow

▪ Had it landed, the blow would have crushed the cartilage and killed him instantly.

▪ The darker boy rallied and eventually landed more and heavier blows.

▪ The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members, so they want to land the first blows.

▪ Sharpe hacked again, this time landing a blow on the back of the helmet.

▪ This time, he hardly landed a blow as the majestic Christie cruised home.

contract

▪ When the Tories crested to power in 1710, Barber landed some lucrative contracts.

▪ Didn't we land a big contract in Bruges?

▪ He had landed a contract as pleased as Punch, and I made a feast for his friends.

▪ She landed at least two substantial contracts to supply stockings to the parliamentary army in Ireland.

▪ Marketing Exports has already landed contracts with a number of local companies in the horticultural sector.

▪ But a cautious McHale yesterday refused to be drawn on Ford's chances of landing a contract for next season.

island

▪ He had landed on the island before and killed penguins, quails, ducks, etc.

▪ Prospero and Miranda had landed on the island, where they had been living for the last twelve years.

▪ Penry was unlikely to look kindly on some one who landed on his island uninvited twice in a row.

▪ In 1521 they landed on the vast island of Sumatra.

▪ This however, was the only unscheduled interruption, and twenty-three of the twenty-four Hurricanes landed safely on the island.

▪ A lord of the court provisioned the boat, and so they survived until they landed on a deserted island.

job

▪ Those who can also show some engineering or other relevant qualifications are, of course, more likely to land a job.

▪ She has tried to land an office job, but no one will hire her, she said.

▪ If you let him send his resume on a pizza box, he will land a job.

▪ In a year's time or less she would land herself a good job, and a place to live.

▪ True as that might be, the process of landing a job with the firm had been suspiciously pleasant.

▪ Dad Ron had by now qualified as an accountant and he eventually landed a job with the local council.

▪ Several students who started in January acquired enough skills to land summer jobs, Frezzo said.

moon

▪ It wasn't long before they landed on the Moon.

▪ Man first landed on the moon on Saturday.

▪ She had walked into that café like some one landing on the moon, her eyes wide with wonder and alarm.

▪ A given rocket booster could actually land more mass on these bodies than it could land on the Moon!

penalty

▪ Both missed with other attempts before Stephens made amends in the second half, landing another three penalties and kicking three conversions.

▪ Andrew Ker landed two penalties for Watsonians, who were missing a few regulars.

▪ The Lions were thankful that Hastings landed his fourth penalty.

▪ Hastings landed three 50-yards plus penalties down wind and a shorter penalty while the Lions forwards created two close-range tries.

▪ Both Barnes and Gavin Hastings landed one penalty and one conversion.

▪ In the end Kevin Phillips, their captain, called on Thorburn and he landed a penalty in first-half injury time.

▪ Craggs added an excellent conversion, then landed his third penalty.

plane

▪ In the event, the plane was forced to land midway between the two cities anyway.

▪ His plane landed within minutes of a plane carrying Castro.

▪ Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields, the main body of the plane had landed in one piece.

▪ To add to their misery, the flight was delayed when the plane had to land at Belfast because of bad weather.

▪ Meanwhile the supply planes kept landing, and the guides kept preparing.

punch

▪ You landed a bloody good punch.

▪ Against Ruddock, a marginal fighter others have put away easily, Tyson never landed the big punch.

▪ He shot out his right arm and landed a punch on Lorrimer's nose.

▪ Tyson landed one punch after the other until a perfect right uppercut almost sent Bruno out of the ring.

▪ In the second round Trentham began to land the odd punch, but never hard enough to allow Tommy to go down.

▪ And while Ruelas' outstanding defensive instincts were evident, Herrera landed good punches throughout.

▪ The first tried to land a punch, but he missed.

▪ Then I began to land some good punches.

role

▪ Before landing his role in the super-soap series, Nader was a model who made it into movies.

▪ The producer never laughed - perhaps he knew all the jokes - but Crawford landed the role of Junior Sailen.

▪ He studied art in Paris and Florence, then landed a Broadway role.

trouble

▪ There was no harm in that but it landed him in trouble every time.

▪ Might we not show these photographs to the government and land the people in trouble?

▪ Which is just as well because some of them have played just a little bit too hard, landing themselves in serious trouble.

▪ He was irascible, hard-cussing, for ever landing in trouble.

▪ Jones landed in trouble over his commentary on a football video glorifying violence.

▪ But that would land Dolly in trouble.

▪ Modern-day racers are under the public spotlight and any slip-up can land them in serious trouble.

▪ It doesn't have to land you in trouble.

water

▪ Illegal testing can land employers in hot water to the tune of $ 10, 000 per violation.

▪ McIntyre landed in hot water for an alleged V-sign to the fans after last week's disappointing home draw with Athlone Town.

▪ There was a plop as it landed in the water, then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down.

▪ As it landed in the water the Jet Ranger immediately rolled to port.

▪ It landed in the water just in front of where the boy was standing.

▪ Down swooped the privet bird, landing gracefully on the water with hardly a splash.

■ VERB

try

▪ With the reef below, and a boat nearby to give them assistance they decided to try and land.

▪ In October 1994, Hultgreen was killed while trying to land on the Lincoln.

▪ The injured man appeared to lose control of his chute as he tried to land.

▪ She has tried to land an office job, but no one will hire her, she said.

▪ The plane was completely destroyed when it hit a mountain in bad weather as it was trying to land.

▪ One chopper tried to land, but the guys shot at him.

▪ Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship.

▪ The realities of flying kicked in when Amelia tried to land the Avian at Rodgers field outside Pittsburgh.