| 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 |
| natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
birth control
birth prevention
family planning | limiting the number of children born |
basal body temperature method of family planning
basal body temperature method | natural family planning in which the fertile period of the woman's menstrual cycle is inferred by noting the rise in basal body temperature that typically occurs with ovulation |
ovulation method of family planning
ovulation method | natural family planning in which the fertile period is inferred from changes in the character and quantity of cervical mucus, ovulation is marked by an increase in mucus that becomes sticky and then clearer and slippery |
| planning | the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise |
city planning
town planning
urban planning | determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
| land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
| planning | an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action, the planning was more fun than the trip itself |
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 |
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 |
spatial property
spatiality | any property relating to or occupying space |
position
spatial relation | the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated, the position of the hands on the clock, he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage |
spacing
spatial arrangement | the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them |
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 |
planning
preparation
provision | the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening, his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties |
| urban planning | the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities |
| 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 |
| planning commission | a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments |
advisory board
planning board | a board appointed to advise the chief administrator |
| 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 |
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 |