land
♦♦♦ land /l'ænd/ (lands landing landed)
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Land is an area of ground, especially one that is used for a particular purpose such as farming or building.
Good agricultural land is in short supply.
...160 acres of land.
...a small piece of grazing land.
2 [N-COUNT] poss N
You can refer to an area of land which someone owns as their land or their lands.
Their home is on his father's land...
His lands were poorly farmed.
3 [N-SING] the N
If you talk about the land, you mean farming and the way of life in farming areas, in contrast to life in the cities.
Living off the land was hard enough at the best of times.
4 [N-UNCOUNT] also the N
Land is the part of the world that consists of ground, rather than sea or air.
It isn't clear whether the plane went down over land or sea.
...a stretch of sandy beach that was almost inaccessible from the land.
5 [N-COUNT] with supp
You can use land to refer to a country in a poetic or emotional way. (LITERARY)
...America, land of opportunity.
6 [VERB] V
When someone or something lands, they come down to the ground after moving through the air or falling.
Three mortar shells had landed close to a crowd of people.
7 [VERB] V, V n
When someone lands a plane, ship, or spacecraft, or when it lands, it arrives somewhere after a journey.
The jet landed after a flight of just under three hours...
The crew finally landed the plane on its belly on the soft part of the runway.
8 [VERB] V n
To land goods somewhere means to unload them there at the end of a journey, especially by ship. (mainly BRIT)
The vessels will have to land their catch at designated ports.
9 [VERB] V in n, V n in n
If you land in an unpleasant situation or place or if something lands you in it, something causes you to be in it. (INFORMAL)
He landed in a psychiatric ward...
This is not the first time his exploits have landed him in trouble.
10 [VERB] V n with n
If someone or something lands you with a difficult situation, they cause you to have to deal with the difficulties involved. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
The other options simply complicate the situation and could land him with more expense.
= saddle, lumber with
11 [VERB] V prep/adv
If something lands somewhere, it arrives there unexpectedly, often causing problems. (INFORMAL)
Two days later the book had already landed on his desk...
= arrive
12 [VERB] V n, V n n
If you land something that is difficult to get and that many people want, you are successful in getting it. (INFORMAL)
He landed a place on the graduate training scheme...
His flair with hair soon landed him a part-time job at his local barbers.
13
to land on your feet: see footcom|mon land (common lands)
[N-UNCOUNT] also N in pl
Common land is land which everyone is allowed to use.dry land
[N-UNCOUNT] oft on N
If you talk about dry land, you are referring to land, in contrast to the sea or the air.
We were glad to be on dry land again.La-La land /l'aːl'aː lænd/
also La La land; la-la land
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
People sometimes refer to Los Angeles, in particular the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, as La-La land. (HUMOROUS, INFORMAL)
...her position as La-La land's premiere hairdresser.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
People sometimes use La-La land to mean an imaginary place. (INFORMAL)
For much of the time he was in hospital, he was under sedation. `I was in La La Land,' he said.
= cloud-cuckoo landland mass (land masses)
also landmass
[N-COUNT]
A land mass is a very large area of land such as a continent.
...the Antarctic landmass.
...the country's large land mass of 768 million hectares.land re|form (land reforms)
[N-VAR]
Land reform is a change in the system of land ownership, especially when it involves giving land to the people who actually farm it and taking it away from people who own large areas for profit.
...the new land reform policy under which thousands of peasant families are to be resettled.land reg|is|try (land registries)
[N-COUNT]
In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.land up
[PHRASAL VERB] V P prep/adv, V P prep/adv
If you say that you land up in a place or situation, you mean that you arrive there after a long journey or at the end of a long series of events. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
Half of those who went east seem to have landed up in southern India...
We landed up at the Las Vegas at about 6.30.
= end up, wind upnever-never land
[N-UNCOUNT] also a N
Never-never land is an imaginary place where everything is perfect and no-one has any problems. (INFORMAL)
We became suspended in some stately never-never land of pleasure, luxury and idleness.no-man's land
1 [N-UNCOUNT] also a N
No-man's land is an area of land that is not owned or controlled by anyone, for example the area of land between two opposing armies.
In Tobruk, leading a patrol in no-man's land, he was blown up by a mortar bomb.
...the no-man's land between the Jordanian and Iraqi frontier posts.
2 [N-SING]
If you refer to a situation as a no-man's land between different things, you mean that it seems unclear because it does not fit into any of the categories.
The play is set in the dangerous no-man's land between youth and adolescence...prom|ised land (promised lands)
[N-COUNT] usu sing
If you refer to a place or a state as a promised land, you mean that people desire it and expect to find happiness or success there.
...the promised land of near-zero inflation.
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Land is an area of ground, especially one that is used for a particular purpose such as farming or building.
Good agricultural land is in short supply.
...160 acres of land.
...a small piece of grazing land.
2 [N-COUNT] poss N
You can refer to an area of land which someone owns as their land or their lands.
Their home is on his father's land...
His lands were poorly farmed.
3 [N-SING] the N
If you talk about the land, you mean farming and the way of life in farming areas, in contrast to life in the cities.
Living off the land was hard enough at the best of times.
4 [N-UNCOUNT] also the N
Land is the part of the world that consists of ground, rather than sea or air.
It isn't clear whether the plane went down over land or sea.
...a stretch of sandy beach that was almost inaccessible from the land.
5 [N-COUNT] with supp
You can use land to refer to a country in a poetic or emotional way. (LITERARY)
...America, land of opportunity.
6 [VERB] V
When someone or something lands, they come down to the ground after moving through the air or falling.
Three mortar shells had landed close to a crowd of people.
7 [VERB] V, V n
When someone lands a plane, ship, or spacecraft, or when it lands, it arrives somewhere after a journey.
The jet landed after a flight of just under three hours...
The crew finally landed the plane on its belly on the soft part of the runway.
8 [VERB] V n
To land goods somewhere means to unload them there at the end of a journey, especially by ship. (mainly BRIT)
The vessels will have to land their catch at designated ports.
9 [VERB] V in n, V n in n
If you land in an unpleasant situation or place or if something lands you in it, something causes you to be in it. (INFORMAL)
He landed in a psychiatric ward...
This is not the first time his exploits have landed him in trouble.
10 [VERB] V n with n
If someone or something lands you with a difficult situation, they cause you to have to deal with the difficulties involved. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
The other options simply complicate the situation and could land him with more expense.
= saddle, lumber with
11 [VERB] V prep/adv
If something lands somewhere, it arrives there unexpectedly, often causing problems. (INFORMAL)
Two days later the book had already landed on his desk...
= arrive
12 [VERB] V n, V n n
If you land something that is difficult to get and that many people want, you are successful in getting it. (INFORMAL)
He landed a place on the graduate training scheme...
His flair with hair soon landed him a part-time job at his local barbers.
13
to land on your feet: see footcom|mon land (common lands)
[N-UNCOUNT] also N in pl
Common land is land which everyone is allowed to use.dry land
[N-UNCOUNT] oft on N
If you talk about dry land, you are referring to land, in contrast to the sea or the air.
We were glad to be on dry land again.La-La land /l'aːl'aː lænd/
also La La land; la-la land
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
People sometimes refer to Los Angeles, in particular the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, as La-La land. (HUMOROUS, INFORMAL)
...her position as La-La land's premiere hairdresser.
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
People sometimes use La-La land to mean an imaginary place. (INFORMAL)
For much of the time he was in hospital, he was under sedation. `I was in La La Land,' he said.
= cloud-cuckoo landland mass (land masses)
also landmass
[N-COUNT]
A land mass is a very large area of land such as a continent.
...the Antarctic landmass.
...the country's large land mass of 768 million hectares.land re|form (land reforms)
[N-VAR]
Land reform is a change in the system of land ownership, especially when it involves giving land to the people who actually farm it and taking it away from people who own large areas for profit.
...the new land reform policy under which thousands of peasant families are to be resettled.land reg|is|try (land registries)
[N-COUNT]
In Britain, a land registry is a government office where records are kept about each area of land in a country or region, including information about who owns it.land up
[PHRASAL VERB] V P prep/adv, V P prep/adv
If you say that you land up in a place or situation, you mean that you arrive there after a long journey or at the end of a long series of events. (mainly BRIT INFORMAL)
Half of those who went east seem to have landed up in southern India...
We landed up at the Las Vegas at about 6.30.
= end up, wind upnever-never land
[N-UNCOUNT] also a N
Never-never land is an imaginary place where everything is perfect and no-one has any problems. (INFORMAL)
We became suspended in some stately never-never land of pleasure, luxury and idleness.no-man's land
1 [N-UNCOUNT] also a N
No-man's land is an area of land that is not owned or controlled by anyone, for example the area of land between two opposing armies.
In Tobruk, leading a patrol in no-man's land, he was blown up by a mortar bomb.
...the no-man's land between the Jordanian and Iraqi frontier posts.
2 [N-SING]
If you refer to a situation as a no-man's land between different things, you mean that it seems unclear because it does not fit into any of the categories.
The play is set in the dangerous no-man's land between youth and adolescence...prom|ised land (promised lands)
[N-COUNT] usu sing
If you refer to a place or a state as a promised land, you mean that people desire it and expect to find happiness or success there.
...the promised land of near-zero inflation.