land
/lænd/ noun B1- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. · Most insects live on land.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected. · There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
- A country or region. · They come from a faraway land.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming. · wet land· good or bad land for growing potatoes
- Realm, domain. · I'm going to Disneyland.· Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
- The ground left unploughed between furrows.
- Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
Plural lands
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.
“From the Land of Oz,” said Dorothy gravely.
“You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins.
“They are the people who live in this land of the East where the Wicked Witch ruled.”
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