Land (n.) Urine. See Lant. |
Land (n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth |
Land (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. |
Land (n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality |
Land (n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people. |
Land (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands. |
Land (n.) The ground or floor. |
Land (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows |
Land (n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc. |
Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat |
Land (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. |
Land (v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft |
Land (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore |
Land (v. t.) To set down after conveying |
Land (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat |
Land-poor (a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. |
No-man's land () A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc. |
No-man's land () Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. |
Settlement (n.) The act of setting, or the state of being settled. |
Settlement (n.) Establishment in life, in business, condition, etc. |
Settlement (n.) The act of peopling, or state of being peopled |
Settlement (n.) The act or process of adjusting or determining |
Settlement (n.) Bestowal, or giving possession, under legal sanction |
Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives |
Settlement (n.) That which settles, or is settled, established, or fixed. |
Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides |
Settlement (n.) A colony newly established |
Settlement (n.) That which is bestowed formally and permanently |
Settlement (n.) The gradual sinking of a building, whether by the yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material. |
Settlement (n.) Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement. |
Settlement (n.) A settled place of abode |
Societies (pl. ) of Society |
Table-land (n.) A broad, level, elevated area of land |
liquidation settlement | termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities |
viatical settlement viaticus settlement | sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder |
land reform | a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action) |
farming land | agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life, farming is a strenuous life, there's no work on the land any more |
land development | making an area of land more useful |
land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
colonization colonisation settlement | the act of colonizing, the establishment of colonies, the British colonization of America |
corncrake land rail Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
land line landline | a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits, a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave |
land mine ground-emplaced mine booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
land office | a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted |
Polaroid camera Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
settlement house | a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services |
twilight zone no man's land | the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression |
acreage land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
clouduckoo-land | an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality |
Promised Land | the goal towards which Christians strive |
never-never land dreamland dreamworld | a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination |
settlement resolution closure | something settled or resolved, the outcome of decision making, they finally reached a settlement with the union, they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences, he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure |
marriage contract marriage settlement | a prenuptial agreement or contract |
settlement | a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it |
out-ofourt settlement | resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court |
property settlement | (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage |
nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, 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 |
village small town settlement | a community of people smaller than a town |
colony settlement | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland, inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government, the American colony in Paris |
frontier settlement outpost | a settlement on the frontier of civilization |
law of the land | a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law), today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process, the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land' |
Adelie Land Terre Adelie Adelie Coast | a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia, noted for its large colonies of penguins |
fatherland homeland motherland mother country country of origin native land | the country where you were born |
Coats Land | a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea |
commons common land | a pasture subject to common use |
country state land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
domain demesne land | territory over which rule or control is exercised, his domain extended into Europe, he made it the law of the land |
Eden paradise nirvana heaven promised land Shangri-la | any place of complete bliss and delight and peace |
Enderby Land | a region of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Wilkes Land, claimed by Australia |
no man's land | an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies |
pasture pastureland grazing land lea ley | a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock |
Queen Maud Land | a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea, claimed by Norway |
site land site | the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located), a good site for the school |
settlement | an area where a group of families live together |
tract piece of land piece of ground parcel of land parcel | an extended area of land |
plot plot of land plot of ground patch | a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation, a bean plot, a cabbage patch, a briar patch |
Victoria Land | a mountainous area of Antarctica bounded by the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land |
Wilkes Land | a coastal region of Antarctica on the Indian Ocean to the south of Australia, most of the territory is claimed by Australia |
Palestine Canaan Holy Land Promised Land | an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism |
Arkansas Land of Opportunity AR | a state in south central United States, one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War |
Illinois Prairie State Land of Lincoln IL | a midwestern state in northentral United States |
New Mexico Land of Enchantment NM | a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border |