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See also: Land, länd, lǟnd, and -land

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lęda (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Noun

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land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

  1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
    Most insects live on land.
  2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
    There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
  3. A country or region.
    They come from a faraway land.
  4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
    wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
  6. (often in combination) realm, domain.
    I'm going to Disneyland.
    Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
  7. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
  8. (Irish English, colloquial) A shock or fright.
    He got an awful land when the police arrived.
  9. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  10. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
    Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
  12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
  13. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
  14. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
    • 2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin, editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16:
      The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.
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  15. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
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Verb

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land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

  1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
    The plane is about to land.
  2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
    • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:
      10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.
  3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
  4. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  5. (transitive) To bring to land.
    It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
    Use the net to land the fish.
  6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
    • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
  7. (transitive) To deliver.
Derived terms
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Terms derived from the verb land
Translations
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to arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water

Adjective

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land (not comparable)

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  1. Of or relating to land.
  2. Residing or growing on land.
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Etymology 2

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From Old English hland.

Noun

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land (uncountable)

  1. lant; urine

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Benwing2/land”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]

Noun

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land (plural lande)

  1. country; nation

Danish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, cognate with English land, German Land.

Noun

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land n (singular definite Benwing2/landet, plural indefinite Benwing2/lande)

  1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent)
    Synonyms: stat, nation
  2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
  3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
  4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise
Usage notes
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In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

Inflection
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Declension of Benwing2/land
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Benwing2/land Benwing2/landet Benwing2/lande Benwing2/landene
genitive Benwing2/lands Benwing2/landets Benwing2/landes Benwing2/landenes
Derived terms
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Terms derived from land (“country, nation”)
Terms derived from land (“countryside”)
Terms derived from land (“(dry) land”)
Terms derived from land (“amusement park”)

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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land

  1. imperative of lande

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

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land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

  1. land; country
  2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)
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Descendants
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  • Afrikaans: land
  • → Sranan Tongo: lanti

Etymology 2

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Verb

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land

  1. inflection of landen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Elfdalian

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Etymology

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From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

Noun

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land n

  1. country; nation

Declension

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Declension of land
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landeð land landę
accusative land landeð land landę
dative lande landę landum landum(e)
genitive — — — —


Faroese

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

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land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

  1. land
  2. coast
  3. country, nation
  4. ground, soil
  5. the state
Declension
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n8 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landið lond londini
accusative land landið lond londini
dative landi landinum londum londunum
genitive lands landsins landa landanna
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą, from Proto-Indo-European *klān- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

Noun

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land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) urine
Declension
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n8 singular
indefinite definite
nominative land landið
accusative land landið
dative landi landinum
genitive lands landsins

Gothic

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Romanization

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land

  1. Romanization of 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

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Noun

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land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

  1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
  2. (countable) country
    Japan er fallegt land.
    Japan is a beautiful country.
  3. (uncountable) countryside, country
    Ég bý úti á landi.
    I live in the country.
  4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
  5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate
    Ég á þetta land og allt sem er á því.
    I own this land and everything on it.

Declension

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Middle English

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Noun

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land

  1. Alternative form of lond

Norwegian Bokmål

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Noun

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land n (definite singular Benwing2/landet, indefinite plural Benwing2/land, definite plural Benwing2/landa or Benwing2/landene)

  1. country
  2. land
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Terms derived from Benwing2/land

Etymology 2

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Verb

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land

  1. imperative of lande

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

Noun

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land n (definite singular Benwing2/landet, indefinite plural Benwing2/land, definite plural Benwing2/landa)

  1. country
    Noreg er eit land i nord.
    Norway is a country in the north.
  2. land
    Det var mangel på land for jordbruk.
    There was a lack of land for agriculture.
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Terms derived from Benwing2/land

Etymology 2

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From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hlandą.

Noun

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land n (definite singular Benwing2/landet, indefinite plural Benwing2/land, definite plural Benwing2/landa)

  1. urine from livestock

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Old Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

Noun

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land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

  1. land
    • 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.
      Mæth logh skal land byggæs.
      With law shall land be built.

Declension

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Declension of land (Scanian system)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landit land landin
accusative land landit land landin
dative landi landinu landum landunum
genitive lanz lanzins landa landanna
The declension is unstable and should be treated as a guide. The case system was gradually being simplified from four to two cases. Even some nominative markers were sporadically kept in the Scanian dialect, although they mostly were replaced with the accusative endings from Old Norse.

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Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant (Dutch land), Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *landā (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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land n

  1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
  2. a country
  3. region within a country: district, province
  4. the country, countryside
  5. owned or tilled land, an estate

Declension

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Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative land land
accusative land land
genitive landes landa
dative lande landum

Derived terms

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Derived prefix terms
Derived suffix terms
Derived national terms
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  • belandian (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
  • belendan (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
  • ġelandian (“to land, to become land”)
  • ġelendan (“to near, land, or come into lands as wealth”)
  • lendan (“to come to land”)

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Old Irish

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Noun

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land ?

  1. Alternative spelling of lann

Mutation

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Mutation of Benwing2/land
radical lenition nasalization
land
also lland after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		land
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

Noun

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land n (genitive lands, plural lǫnd)

  1. land

Declension

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  Declension of Benwing2/land (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landit lǫnd lǫndin
accusative land landit lǫnd lǫndin
dative landi landinu lǫndum lǫndunum
genitive lands landsins landa landanna

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References

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  • land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *landā (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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land n

  1. land

Declension

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Declension of land (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative land land
accusative land land
genitive landes landō
dative lande landun
instrumental — —


Descendants

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  • Middle Low German: lant

Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

Noun

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land n

  1. land

Declension

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Declension of land (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative land landit land landin
accusative land landit land landin
dative landi, lande landinu, landeno landum, landom landumin, landomen
genitive lands landsins landa landanna

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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From German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlant/
  • Rhymes: -ant
  • Syllabification: land

Noun

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land m inan

  1. Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
  2. (Poznań) countryside (rural area)
    Synonyms: prowincja, wieś

Declension

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Declension of User:Benwing2/land
singular plural
nominative User:Benwing2/land User:Benwing2/landy
genitive User:Benwing2/landu User:Benwing2/landów
dative User:Benwing2/landowi User:Benwing2/landom
accusative User:Benwing2/land User:Benwing2/landy
instrumental User:Benwing2/landem User:Benwing2/landami
locative User:Benwing2/landzie User:Benwing2/landach
vocative User:Benwing2/landzie User:Benwing2/landy

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Spanish

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Etymology

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From German Land.

Noun

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land m (plural lands)

  1. one of the federal states of Germany
    • 2020 January 29, “El coronavirus ya se transmite fuera de China y se teme por su afectación al Mobile”, in La Vanguardia‎[2]:
      Alemania confirmó ayer los cuatro primeros casos de coronavirus de Wuhan en su territorio, todos pertenecientes a la misma empresa de componentes de automóvil del land alemán de Baviera.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

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Noun

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land n

  1. a land, a country, a nation, a state
  2. (uncountable) land, ground, earth, territory; as opposed to sea or air
    land i sikte!
    land in sight!
    efter kriget tvangs förlorande staterna avträda mycket land
    after the war, the losing states had to cede much land
  3. (uncountable) land, countryside, earth, ground suitable for farming; as opposed to towns and cities
    livet på landet
    life in the countryside
    stad och land
    town and country
  4. a garden plot, short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground for growing vegetables, flowers, etc.

Declension

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Declension of Benwing2/land 1
nominative genitive
singular indefinite Benwing2/land Benwing2/lands
definite Benwing2/landet Benwing2/landets
plural indefinite länder länders
definite länderna ländernas
Declension of Benwing2/land 2-3
nominative genitive
singular indefinite Benwing2/land Benwing2/lands
definite landet landets
plural indefinite — —
definite — —
Declension of Benwing2/land
nominative genitive
singular indefinite Benwing2/land Benwing2/lands
definite Benwing2/landet Benwing2/landets
plural indefinite Benwing2/land Benwing2/lands
definite Benwing2/landen Benwing2/landens

Synonyms

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  • (country): nation
  • (neither sea nor air): backe, landbacke, mark
  • (ground suitable for farming): mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)

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Zealandic

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch lant

Noun

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land n (plural [please provide])

  1. land
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