landing

UK/ˈlændɪŋ/US/ˈlændɪŋ/

nounB22 meanings Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,767 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: landings

A landing is the flat area at the top of a flight of stairs. Where the doors to the bedrooms open off.

Houses with several floors have several, and a half-landing turns the stairs halfway up. The word also names what an aircraft does at the end of a flight, which is where a smooth landing, a crash landing and a landing strip come from. Boats have a landing stage. There is a fixed phrase from aviation used about anything survived, since any landing you walk away from is a good one.

Definitions of landing

1nounlandingThe level area at the top of or between flights of stairs.B2~2%
“The bathroom is straight ahead off the landing.”
2nounactThe act of coming down to the ground in an aircraft.B1~98%
“It was a bumpy landing in the crosswind.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 17 sentences found in the wild and placed 10 of them on a sense (7 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.

Where it comes from

Middle English
lond
English
land
English, today
landing

by surface analysis, land + -ing. land comes 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

Practised in A Man Called Ove, Buildings & Architecture

First appears in chapter 11 of A Man Called Ove.

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landing in the wild

Armstrong became the first human to walk on the Moon approximately six hours after landing, followed by Aldrin nineteen minutes later.
Apollo 11
Kennedy's national goal, "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in his address to the U.S.
Apollo program
Approximately 650 million people worldwide watched this first landing on television.
Apollo program
The most notable claim of these conspiracy theories is that the six crewed landings were faked and that twelve Apollo astronauts did not actually land on the Moon.
Moon landing conspiracy theories
Takeoff and landing areas defined on the surface of water for seaplanes are generally referred to as waterways.
Runway

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Definitions of landing

1nounlandingThe level area at the top of or between flights of stairs.B2~2%

“The bathroom is straight ahead off the landing.”

2nounactThe act of coming down to the ground in an aircraft.B1~98%

“It was a bumpy landing in the crosswind.”

Shares are an estimate: a language model read 17 sentences found in the wild and placed 10 of them on a sense (7 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.