• working the Land as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there''s no work on the Land any more"
• the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation''s mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"
• a politically organized body of people under a single government; "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"
• the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the Land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
• territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the Land"
• the solid part of the earth''s surface; "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"
• material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the Land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"
• United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)
• extensive Landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long IsLand"
• the Land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on Land leased from the city"
• a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a Land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
• bring into a different state; "this may Land you in jail"
• reach or come to rest; "The bird Landed on the highest branch"; "The plane Landed in Istanbul"
• cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to Land the airplane safely"
• shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy Landed several of our aircraft"
• arrive on shore; "The ship Landed in Pearl Harbor"
• bring ashore; "The drug smugglers Landed the heroin on the beach of the isLand"
• deliver (a blow); "He Landed several blows on his opponent''s head"

'Land' in other languages