Definition: agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
Usage: farming is a strenuous life; there's no work on the land any more
Main entry: land, nation, country
Definition: the people who live in a nation or country
Usage: a statement that sums up the nation's mood; the news was announced to the nation; the whole country worshipped him
Main entry: res publica, state, country, commonwealth, body politic, nation, land
Definition: a politically organized body of people under a single government
Usage: 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
Main entry: country, state, land
Definition: the territory occupied by a nation
Usage: he returned to the land of his birth; he visited several European countries
Main entry: domain, demesne, land
Definition: territory over which rule or control is exercised
Usage: his domain extended into Europe; he made it the law of the land
Main entry: land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, dry land, earth
Definition: the solid part of the earth's surface
Usage: 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
Main entry: ground, land, soil
Definition: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
Usage: the land had never been plowed; good agricultural soil
Main entry: Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land
Definition: United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
Main entry: demesne, acres, estate, land, landed estate
Definition: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Usage: the family owned a large estate on Long Island
Main entry: land
Definition: the land on which real estate is located
Usage: he built the house on land leased from the city
Main entry: land, kingdom, realm
Definition: a domain in which something is dominant
Usage: the untroubled kingdom of reason; a land of make-believe; the rise of the realm of cotton in the south
Definition: bring into a different state
Usage: this may land you in jail
Definition: reach or come to rest
Usage: The bird landed on the highest branch; The plane landed in Istanbul
Main entry: bring down, land, put down
Definition: cause to come to the ground
Usage: the pilot managed to land the airplane safely
Main entry: land, down, shoot down
Definition: shoot at and force to come down
Usage: the enemy landed several of our aircraft
Main entry: shore, set ashore, land
Definition: arrive on shore
Usage: The ship landed in Pearl Harbor
Main entry: land
Definition: bring ashore
Usage: The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island
Main entry: land
Definition: deliver (a blow)
Usage: He landed several blows on his opponent's head