Other forms: lands, landing, landed
Land is the solid part of the earth's surface, as against the sea. It is also ground owned or farmed, and a country. Dry land, farm land, a distant land — the same word, widening each time.
As a verb it is what an aircraft or a bird does when it comes down: the plane landed at six. It also means to arrive somewhere unexpectedly, to catch a fish, and informally to obtain something good — she landed a job at the museum. Note that land is uncountable for the ground and countable for a country, and that the countable one is literary now: people say country in ordinary speech and land in stories and anthems.
1verbarriveTo come down onto the ground from the air.~13%
“The plane landed twenty minutes early.”
synonyms: touch down, alight
2nounsolidThe solid part of the earth's surface.~59%
“After three weeks at sea they sighted land.”
3nounfarmedGround that is owned, farmed or built on.~20%
“The land has been in the family for two hundred years.”
4verbsucceedTo succeed in getting something you wanted.~2%
“She landed the contract on her second attempt.”
5nouncountryA country, in literary or older use.~6%
“He came from a land where it never snowed.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 15 sentences found in the wild and placed 15 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
land is ground, or a way of arriving.
Also accepted in games: touch down
Old English land goes back to a Proto-Germanic word meaning a defined piece of ground, and the same root gives Dutch land, German Land and the -land in every place name from Scotland to Iceland. It has meant a piece of ground with an edge to it for as long as it has been recorded.
Middle English
lond
English, today
land
From Middle English lond. From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic land, from Proto-Germanic landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European lendʰ- (“land, heath”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA