lander

See also: Lander, länder, Landër, and Länder

English

Etymology

From land +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈlændə]
• (General American) IPA^(key): [ˈlændɚ]

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Hyphenation: land‧er
• Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

Noun

lander (plural landers)

1. One who lands, or who lands something.
   • 1997, Northern Scotland, volumes 17-18, page 94:

     The Faroese have been important landers of fish at Aberdeen for decades.

2. A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
3. (mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
4. (slang) An illegal immigrant.
5. (in combination) A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
   • 2016, Mail Online:

     La La Lander: Golden Globe nominee Emma Stone donned a grey ruffled pencil skirt with a white sheer blouse for the party.

6. (Internet) Synonym of landing page

Translations

space probe

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 著陸器 / 着陆器 (zhuólùqì)

• Finnish: laskeutumisluotain, laskeutuja (fi)
• French: atterrisseur (fr) m
• German: Lander (de) m
• Hindi: लैंडर m (laiṇḍar)
• Italian: modulo di atterraggio
• Japanese: ランダー (randā), 着陸船 (ちゃくりくせん, ryakurikusen)
• Korean: 착륙선 (changnyukseon)
• Polish: lądownik (pl) m
• Russian: спуска́емый аппара́т (ru) m (spuskájemyj apparát), поса́дочный мо́дуль m (posádočnyj módulʹ)
• Swedish: landare (sv) c
• Turkish: iniş aracı

person at the mouth of a shaft

(slang) illegal immigrant

• Russian: нелега́л (ru) m (nelegál), нелега́лка (ru) f (nelegálka)

Anagrams

• Ladner, darnel, learn'd, reland, Randle, Rednal, learnd, enlard, aldern, Nadler, Lenard, Randel, Larned, larned

Danish

Verb

lander

1. present of lande

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lander

1. present of lande