The land on which real estate is located.

Dutch: vaderland, land, grond
Polish: ziemia, grunt, nieruchomość gruntowa

Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use):
— The land had never been plowed.

synonyms: ground, soil.

Dutch: landen, aarde, grond, grondsoort
Polish: ziemia, grunt

Territory over which rule or control is exercised:
— He made it the law of the land.

synonyms: demesne, domain.

Dutch: domein, machtsgebied

The solid part of the earth's surface:
— The plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land.

synonyms: dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma.

Roget 342: land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma.    continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese [Fr.], delta; tongue of land, neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory etc. (projection) 250; highland etc. (height) 206.    coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard, seaside, seabank^†, seacoast, seabeach^†; ironbound coast; loom of the land; derelict; innings; alluvium, alluvion^†; ancon.    riverbank, river bank, levee.    soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge^†, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag.    acres; real estate etc. (property) 780; landsman^†.    ... show more

Dutch: land, vasteland
Polish: krajobraz, okolica, strony, teren

The territory occupied by a nation:
— He returned to the land of his birth.

synonyms: country, state.

A domain in which something is dominant:
— A land of make-believe.

synonyms: kingdom, realm.

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use:
— The family owned a large estate on Long Island.

synonyms: acres, demesne, estate, landed estate.

Roget 780: property, possession, suum cuique [Lat.], meum et tuum [Lat.].    ownership, proprietorship, lordship; seignority^†; empire etc. (dominion) 737.    interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure etc. (possession) 777; vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable estate; seizin [Law], seisin [Law].    absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple; estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general.    limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie [Fr.]; remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility.    dower, dowry, jointure^†, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony; legacy etc. (gift) 784; Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.    assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth etc. 803; money etc. 800; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and effects.    landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands; tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments; acres; ground etc. (earth) 342; acquest^†, messuage, toft^†.    territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence.    manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium etc. (free) 748^†; fief, fieff^†, feoff^†, feud, zemindary^†, dependency; arado^†, merestead^†, ranch.    free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland^†; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.    personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage etc. 633.    parcels, appurtenances.    impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.    rent roll; income etc. (receipts) 810; maul and wedges [U.S.].    patent, copyright; chose in action; credit etc. 805; debt etc. 806.    ... show more

Dutch: eigendom, trek, bezit, goed, landgoed, zate
Polish: dominium, domena

The people who live in a nation or country.

synonyms: country, nation.

A politically organized body of people under a single government:
— An industrialized land.

synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, nation, res publica, state.

Dutch: gemenebest, land, staat
Polish: nawa państwowa

United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991).

synonyms: Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land.

Agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life:
— There's no work on the land any more.

synonym: farming.

Dutch: boerenbedrijf
Polish: gospodarzenie się, gospodarowanie, gospodarzenie

Reach or come to rest:
— The bird landed on the highest branch.
— The plane landed in Istanbul.

synonym: set down.

Roget 292: arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up to; overtake, make, fetch; complete etc. 729; join, rejoin.    light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down etc. (be located) 184; get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in etc. (ingress) 294; make one's appearance etc. (appear) 446; drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit.    come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter^†; come in contact.    ... show more

Roget 267: sail; put to sea etc. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters.    navigate, warp, luff^†, scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise, coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.    ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.    swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer [Fr.], dive, wade.    fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.    ... show more

Roget 342: land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land; come ashore, go ashore, debark.   

Cause to come to the ground:
— The pilot managed to land the airplane safely.

synonyms: bring down, put down.

Bring into a different state:
— This may land you in jail.

synonym: bring.

Dutch: brengen

Bring ashore.

Dutch: landen

Deliver (a blow).

Arrive on shore:
— The ship landed in Pearl Harbor.

synonyms: set ashore, shore.

Shoot at and force to come down:
— The enemy landed several of our aircraft.

synonyms: down, shoot down.