WordNet
adv. towards the shore from the water; "we invited them ashore" [syn: ashore, on land, toward land]
Usage examples of "onto land".
Awkwardly, robe clinging to, her arms and legs and hindering her every motion, she swam back to the bank, staggered out onto land once more.
Mountains rose on the horizon in the west, and beyond the ridge they had just negotiated lay the ocean which had so rudely spit them onto land.
Zeyk and his man rolled up their robes and stepped over the freeboard into the water, and helped the whole string of slaves over the side onto land.
The river was high, and it spilled over onto land where the water table was already near the surface.
Evolution won't allow it, and at its heart this is an evolutionary process, an endeavor driven at a level below intention, as when life made its first miracle leap out of matter, or when it crawled out of sea onto land.
It would take them across thousands of miles and onto land that had been under water only a few centuries earlier.