land

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  1. noun The solid ground of the earth.
  2. noun Ground or soil: tilled the land.
  3. noun A topographically or functionally distinct tract: desert land; prime building land.
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  • They had made him one of the greatest lawyers in the land--those, and his gift of gab What had made Ham Brooks the most famous fellow in the land was his clothing. —  075 - The Gold Ogre
  • 'This land is your land, this land is my land' (From song) —  WordPress.com News
  • No additional information regarding proposed use for the land was available by The Reporter's press time. —  Sand Mountain Reporter: News
  • The 'city' can't develop the downtown as the land is all privately owned, and in case your legally blind there are heaps of private condo developments going up. —  Whitehorsestar.com News
  • I tried to explain that the home and the land were purchased together and on the same loan as a land home package the lady i spoke with told me the only thing I had financed with them was the land which is only 1 acre ... the loan balance is $76,000.00 ..
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land:   landing ·  landed ·  lands
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see lendh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English land, lond, from Anglo-Saxon land, lond = Old Saxon OFries. D. Middle Low German Low German land, Old High German Middle High German lant, land, G. Icelandic Danish Swedish Gothic (Moesogothic) land, land, country. There are no apparently connections outside of Teut, The F. lande, a heath, etc., is perhaps of other origin: see land, laund.
  2. from Middle English landen, lenden, from Anglo-Saxon lendan, come to land, arrive, gelendan, gelændan, intransitive come to land, arrive, transitive endow with land (= Dutch landen = German landen = Danish lande = Swedish landa, land), from land, land: see land, n. See lend, an older form of the verb.
  3. English dial. also lant; from Middle English *land, from Anglo-Saxon hland, hlond (rare) = Icelandic hland, urine.
 

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