Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of sighting or reaching land after a voyage or flight.
- n. The land sighted or reached after a voyage or flight.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A land-slide or land-slip.
- n. Nautical, an approach or a coming to land, in the course or at the end of a sea-voyage; also, land so approached or reached.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
- n. (Naut.) Sighting or making land when at sea.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)
- n. the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)
Examples
“Forecasters said the likelihood that Alberto will become a hurricane prior to landfall is decreasing.”
“Do all you liberals actually think that a hurricane making landfall is reason for every Republican in America to drop what they are doing, clear their agendas and rush to the site of the destruction?”
“Now, while I’ll be the first to admit that hurricanes are lethal and forewarning of possible landfall is more than helpful, the constant firing of distress signals by the media tends to dull our fears.”
“And we make landfall, which is -- which means that the center of the eye makes landfall, touches land somewhere.”
“MYERS: Well, I think we can -- we can safely call landfall now, Tony.”
“The media riot that followed the Katrina landfall was a disgrace to your profession.”
“So the storm could strengthen to a category five long before landfall, which is expected at 2: 00 a.m. Tuesday and south of Cancun and Cozumel, north of the Honduras and north of the Belize/Mexico border.”
“Because even far away from the forecast track landfall, which is pretty far to the south of here, they're going to easy get winds of (INAUDIBLE) if not hurricane force.”
“The area where the hurricane made landfall, which is across the border in Nicaragua, we spoke to a person there, the minister of health, who is there holed up in a hospital.”
“This really what it does is allows federal funds, supplies, resources, people to be in place in Texas, even before this makes landfall, which is really a great advantage, a criteria that has to be met.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘landfall’.
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land phrases/words
how land is used
land-yard, land-yacht, land-worthiness, land-worker, land work, land wire, land-winkle, land-wine, land wheel, land-wealth, land-wave, land-water and 371 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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Fall
fall, fall in with, fall in love, The Fall, Fallen Angel, fallen angel, nuclear fallout, Things Fall Apart, waterfall, Falling Water, fall apart, falling and 55 more...
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Things that fall
words that end in fall
befall, deadfall, dew-fall, dewfall, downfall, evenfall, foot-fall, footfall, free-fall, freefall, icefall, infall and 18 more...
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Nautical Words
lubber, mizzenmast, circumnavigation, clipper, cordage, galleon, gangplank, gangway, flying bridge, following sea, schooner, amidships and 106 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, L
lisle, lahar, loupe, labret, latten, luster, lagomorph, lamentation, limicole, lunge, lobtail, latifolious and 182 more...
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Transportation
monoplane, cabriolet, phaeton, argosy, coracle, sampan, Ventiports, wedgehead, sweepspear, fuselage, trafficator, barouche and 70 more...
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