1. (n.)land any part of the earth's surface, as a continent or an island, not covered by a body of water.
2. land an area of ground with reference to its nature or composition: arable land.
3. land an area of ground with specific boundaries: to buy land in Florida.
4. land rural or farming areas, as contrasted with urban areas: They left the land for the city.
5. land Law.
6. land any part of the earth's surface that can be owned as property, and everything annexed to it.
7. land a part of the earth's surface marked off by natural or political boundaries or the like; a region or country: They came from many lands.
8. land the people of a region or country.
9. land a realm or domain: the land of the living.
10. land a surface between furrows, as on the interior of a rifle barrel.
11. (v.t.)land to bring to or set on land.
12. land to bring into or cause to arrive in a particular place, position, or condition: His behavior will land him in jail.
13. land Informal. to catch or capture; win: to land a job.
14. land to bring (a fish) onto land or into a boat, as with a hook or a net.
15. (v.i.)land to come to land or shore: The boat lands at Cherbourg.
16. land to go or come ashore from a ship or boat.
17. land to alight upon or strike a surface, as the ground or a body of water: The plane landed on time.
18. land to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes fol. by up): to land in trouble; to land up 40 miles from home.
19. (n.)Land Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, U.S. inventor and physicist.
Definition of 'land'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)land the land on which real estate is located "he built the house on land leased from the city"
2. (noun)land, ground, soil 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"
3. (noun)domain, demesne, land territory over which rule or control is exercised "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"
4. (noun)land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma 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"
5. (noun)country, state, land the territory occupied by a nation "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
6. (noun)kingdom, land, realm 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"
7. (noun)estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
8. (noun)nation, land, country 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"
9. (noun)state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic 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"
10. (noun)Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
11. (verb)farming, land agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more"
12. (verb)land, set down reach or come to rest "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul"
13. (verb)land, put down, bring down cause to come to the ground "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
14. (verb)bring, land bring into a different state "this may land you in jail"
15. (verb)land bring ashore "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
16. (verb)land deliver (a blow) "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
17. (verb)land, set ashore, shore arrive on shore "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
18. (verb)down, shoot down, land shoot at and force to come down "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
1. (noun)land the earth, not the sea on land or at sea
2. land an area of ground used for building, farming, etc. fertile land; to buy a plot of land
3. land a country in a distant land
4. (verb)land ≠ take off We will be landing in about 10 minutes.; He skillfully landed the helicopter.
5. land (of a boat) to arrive somewhere a Spanish ship that landed in Ireland
6. land (of a bird, insect, or object) to fly or come down somewhere The ball landed on my head.; The hawk circled before landing.
7. land to get a very good thing She landed an amazing job in New York.
8. land to get into a bad situation His drug dealing landed him in jail.
Definition of 'land'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)land urine. See Lant
2. (noun)land the solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage
3. (noun)land any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract
4. (noun)land ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land
5. (noun)land the inhabitants of a nation or people
6. (noun)land the mainland, in distinction from islands
7. (noun)land the ground or floor
8. (noun)land the ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing
9. (noun)land any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate
10. (noun)land the lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing
11. (noun)land in any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves
12. (verb)land to set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark
13. (verb)land to catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish
14. (verb)land to set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes
15. (verb)land to go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course
Definitions of land 
Afrikaans: land
Arabic: أرْض
Bulgarian: земя
Brazilian: terra
Czech: pevnina
German: das Land
Danish: land
Greek: ξηρά, στεριά
Spanish: tierra
Estonian: maa
Farsi: خشکی
Finnish: maa
French: terre
Hebrew: יַבָּשָׁה
Hindi: जमीन
Croatian: tlo, zemlja
Hungarian: föld
Indonesian: daratan
Icelandic: land
Italian: terra
Japanese: 陸地
Korean: 땅, 지면
Lithuanian: sausuma,žemė
Latvian: zeme; sauszeme; cietzeme
Malay: darat
Dutch: vasteland
Norwegian: land
Polish: ląd
Persian: خشکی
Pashto: وچوالى
Portuguese: terra
Romanian: pământ
Russian: суша
Slovak: pevnina
Slovenian: kopno
Serbian: kopno
Swedish: land
Thai: พื้นดิน
Turkish: kara
Taiwanese: 陸地
Ukrainian: земля, суша
Urdu: زمین
Vietnamese: đất
Chinese: 陆地
