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land 1, noun (oh)



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1 ?ground?
2 ?not sea?
3 ?country?
4 ?not city?
5 ?property?
6 see/find out how the land lies
7 in the land of the living
8 the land of milk and honey
9 (in) the land of nod
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[Language: Old English; Origin:]
?GROUND?
[U] an area of ground, especially when used for farming or building
::500 acres of land
::a piece of open land (=land which has not been built on)
fertile/arid/dry land
agricultural/arable land
waste/vacant/derelict land
housing/industrial etc land
::a shortage of housing land
::land prices
-see also dockland , farmland see usage note ground 1
?NOT SEA?
[U] the solid dry part of the Earth's surface
::After 21 days at sea, we sighted land.
by land
::Troops began an assault on the city by land and sea.
on land
::The crocodile lays its eggs on land.
land bird/animal
::The white stork is one of the biggest land birds of the region.
-see also dry land
?COUNTRY?
[C] literary a country or area
::Their journey took them to many foreign lands .
native land
(=the land where you were born)
::He's fiercely proud of his native land.
::Australia represented a real land of opportunity for thousands of people.
?NOT CITY?
the land
the countryside thought of as a place where people grow food
live off the land
(=grow or catch all the food you need)
::A third of the region's population still lives off the land.
work/farm the land
(=grow crops)
::Many people were forced to give up working the land.
?PROPERTY?
[U] the area of land that someone owns
::He ordered us to get off his land.
private/public/common land
see/find out how the land lies
spoken to try to discover what the situation really is before you make a decision
in the land of the living
spoken awake - used humorously
the land of milk and honey
an imaginary place where life is easy and pleasant
(in) the land of nod
old-fashioned asleep
-see also be/live in cloud-cuckoo-land at cloud 1 (7), dry land , dreamland , fairyland
-see also the lie of the land at lie 3 (3)
-see also never-never land
-see also promised land
-see also wasteland
-see also wonderland