" land "

[Noun]  | "land" | \ ˈland \

1: the solid part of the surface of the earth; also : a corresponding part of a celestial body (such as the moon)

2: ground or soil of a specified situation, nature, or quality

3: the surface of the earth and all its natural resources

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English lond, land, going back to Old English, going back to Germanic *landa- (strong neuter noun), perhaps originally "untilled land" (whence also Old Frisian land, lond "land, earth, country, landed property," Old Saxon land, Old High German lant, Old Norse land, Gothic land "field, country"), going back to dialectal Indo-European *londh-o-, o-grade form of a noun with apparent zero-grade *ln̥dh-eh2- in Celtic *land-ā-, whence Old Irish land, lann "land, plot, church building," Welsh llan "church and its adjoining property, enclosure," also Old Irish ithlann "threshing floor" (with ith "grain"), Old Welsh itlann, glossing Latin ārea "threshing floor," Welsh ydlan "barnyard" (with ŷd "grain"); and probably in Elfdalian (dialect of north central Sweden) linda "overgrown field," Old Prussian lindan (accusative singular) "valley"; zero-grade *ln̥dh- or full grade *lendh- in Slavic *lęd-, whence Russian ljadá "uncultivated field with first-growth forest," Old Russian ljadina "wasteland, weeds, thick brush," Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian lèdina, ledìna "wasteland, virgin soil," Polish ląnd "dry land, mainland";

  * Note : The etymon is limited to northern European Indo-European: Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and (marginally) Baltic. E. Seebold (in F. Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 22. Auflage, 1989) proposes a derivative *lem-dh- from a verbal base *lem- "break (ground)," whence Old Church Slavic lemešĭ "plow," Lithuanian lẽmežis "wooden part of the plough" (compare Old Church Slavic lomiti "to break"). The suggestion has also been made that the etymon was borrowed from a non-Indo-European language.;

[Noun]  | "land acknowledgment" 

1: a usually brief statement (such as one made at a public gathering) that recognizes the surrounding land as the ancestral, traditional, or contemporary homeland of one or more Indigenous peoples

Origin: 2014 ;

[Noun]  | "land bank" 

1: a bank that provides financing for land development and for farm mortgages

Origin: 1696 ;

[Noun]  | "land grab" | \ ˈlan(d)-ˌgrab \

1: a usually swift acquisition of property (such as land or patent rights) often by fraud or force

Origin: 1860 ;

[Noun]  | "land grant" 

1: a grant of land made by the government especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges

Origin: 1862 ;

[Noun]  | "land mine" 

1: a mine usually placed just below the surface of the ground and designed to be exploded usually by the weight of vehicles or troops passing over it —often used figuratively

Origin: 1890 ;

[Noun]  | "land office" 

1: a government office in which entries upon and sales of public land are registered

Origin: 1681 ;

[Noun]  | "land-of*fice business" | \ ˈland-ˈä-fəs- \

1: extensive and rapid business

Origin: 1839 ;

[Verb]  | "land" 

1: to set or put on shore from a ship : disembark

2: to set down after conveying

3: to cause to reach or come to rest in a particular place

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English londen, landen, derivative of lond, land {see: |land:1|land:1};

[Biographical name]  | "Land" | \ ˈland \

1: Edwin Herbert 1909—1991 American inventor and industrialist

[Noun]  | "land" 

[Noun]  | "land yachts" 

[Noun]  | "land yacht" 

[Noun]  | "land mine" 

[Noun]  | "land mines" 

[Noun]  | "cloud-cuckoo-land" 

[Noun]  | "never-never land" 

[Verb]  | "land" 

[Verb]  | "crash-land" 

[Verb]  | "belly-land"