(land) noun
1. The solid substance composing the material part of the earth, considered in its entirety.
2. A country or district, large or small, especially considered as a place of human habitation, or as distinguished by events or facts of interest.
3. Ground or soil considered with reference to its use, value, condition, etc.: real estate: farm land; coal land.
4. Law Any tract of ground whatever, together with all its appurtenances; also, a share or interest in land, tenements, or any hereditament, both corporeal and incorporeal. ♦ Collateral adjective: predial.
5. Any unindented space in a surface marked with indentations, as a level space between the furrows of millstone, or a space on the bore of a rifle between two grooves.
6. In economic discussion, those resources which are supplied by nature, as distinguished from the developments and improvements resulting from human labor.
—v.t.
1. To put ashore; transfer from a vessel to the shore.
2. To bring to rest on land or water: He landed the plane at Washington.
3. To bring to some point, condition, or state: His words landed him in trouble.
4. In fishing, to bring (a fish) from the water or into a net, boat, etc.; catch.
5. Colloq. To obtain or secure; win, as a position.
6. Colloq. To deliver, as a blow.
—v.i.
7. To go or come ashore, as from a boat.
8. To touch at a port; come to land: said of ships.
9. To descend and come to rest, as after flight; come down: The bird landed in the tree.
10. To come to some place, condition, or state; arrive; end: The swindlers soon landed in jail. See synonyms under ARRIVE, REACH. [OE] Synonyms (noun): continent, country, district, earth, ground, region, shore, soil. Antonyms: deep, flood, ocean, sea, surge, water, wave.

1. A region of a certain kind: woodland.
2. The country of: Scotland.
3. A specified place or realm: cloudland. An inhabitant of any of these places is denoted by the combining form -lander. [<LAND]