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  • English Word Land Definition To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
  • English Word Land Definition To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.
  • English Word Land Definition To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
  • English Word Land-poor Definition Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
  • English Word Landamman Definition A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
  • English Word Landamman Definition The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
  • English Word Landau Definition A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage.
  • English Word Landaulet Definition A small landau.
  • English Word Landed Definition of Land
  • English Word Landed Definition Having an estate in land.
  • English Word Landed Definition Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security.
  • English Word Lander Definition One who lands, or makes a landing.
  • English Word Lander Definition A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
  • English Word Landfall Definition A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
  • English Word Landfall Definition Sighting or making land when at sea.
  • English Word Landflood Definition An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.
  • English Word Landgrave Definition A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.
  • English Word Landgraviate Definition The territory held by a landgrave.
  • English Word Landgraviate Definition The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.
  • English Word Landgravine Definition The wife of a landgrave.
  • English Word Landholder Definition A holder, owner, or proprietor of land.
  • English Word Landing Definition of Land
  • English Word Landing Definition Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.
  • English Word Landing Definition A going or bringing on shore.
  • English Word Landing Definition A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.
  • English Word Landing Definition The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
  • English Word Landladies Definition of Landlady
  • English Word Landlady Definition A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.
  • English Word Landlady Definition The mistress of an inn or lodging house.
  • English Word Landleaper Definition See Landlouper.