" lands "

[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};

[Verb]  | "bel*ly-land" | \ ˈbe-lē-ˌland \

1: to land an airplane on its undersurface without use of landing gear

Origin: 1942 ;

[Verb]  | "crash-land" | \ ˈkrash-ˈland \

1: to land (an airplane or spacecraft) under emergency conditions usually with damage to the craft

2: to crash-land an airplane or spacecraft

Origin: 1941 ;

[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]  | "cloud-cuck*oo-land" | \ ˌklau̇d-ˈkü-(ˌ)kü-ˌland \

1: a realm of fantasy or of whimsical or foolish behavior

Origin: 1899 ;

 Translation of Greek nephelokokkygia;

[Noun]  | "crown land" 

1: land belonging to the crown and yielding revenues that the reigning sovereign is entitled to

2: public land in some British dominions or colonies

Origin: 1591 ;

[Noun]  | "la-la land" | \ ˈlä-ˌlä- \

1: a euphoric, dreamlike mental state detached from the harsher realities of life

2: —used as a nickname for Los Angeles, California

Origin: 1979 ;

 Perhaps from la-la nonsense syllables in the refrains of songs;

[Noun]  | "nev*er-nev*er land" | \ ˌne-vər-ˈne-vər- \

1: an ideal or imaginary place

Origin: 1900 ;

[Noun]  | "no-man's-land" | \ ˈnō-ˌmanz-ˌland \

1: an area of unowned, unclaimed, or uninhabited land

2: an unoccupied area between opposing armies

3: an area not suitable or used for occupation or habitation

Origin: 14th century ;

[Noun]  | "promised land" 

1: something and especially a place or condition believed to promise final satisfaction or realization of hopes

Origin: 1561 ;

[Noun]  | "lands" 

[Noun]  | "land" 

[Noun]  | "cloud-cuckoo-lands" 

[Noun]  | "never-never lands" 

[Noun]  | "no-man's-lands" 

[Noun]  | "promised lands" 

[Verb]  | "lands" 

[Verb]  | "land" 

[Verb]  | "belly-lands" 

[Verb]  | "crash-lands"