An intermediate platform in a staircase.

Dutch: portaal, voorhof, voorportaal
Polish: przycieś, półpiętro, podest

Structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods.

synonym: landing place.

Roget 292: arrival, advent; landing; debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur [Fr.].    home, goal, goalpost; landing place, landing stage; bunder^†; resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport; terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal; journey's end; anchorage etc. (refuge) 666.    return, remigration^†; meeting; rencounter^†, encounter.    completion etc. 729.    recursion [Comp.].    ... show more

Dutch: landing, aanlegplaats, aanlegsteiger, landingsbrug, steiger
Polish: przystań

The act of coming down to the earth (or other surface).

Dutch: overloop, landing
Polish: wylądowanie, lądowanie

The act of coming to land after a voyage.