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# land

«land» in Mova's school dictionary: **the ground, the part of the Earth that is not water** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (land, lands); verb (land, lands, landed, landing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Land is the ground, the part of the Earth that is not water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#m1)

2) Land is an area of ground that someone owns or uses, like a farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#m2)

3) A land is a country or place: a faraway land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#m3)

4) To land is to come down to the ground or water after flying or falling, like a plane or a bird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#m4)

5) To land a boat is to bring it to the shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, an area (acres, square metres) to divide or plant; a flight ending; a coin landing on heads in probability. In science and geography, land and sea, landforms, animals that live on land. In stories, a magic land, the plane lands safely. Phrases: «on land», «dry land», «land on», «landing», «a land far away».

### examples

- The farmer has 40 acres of land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x1)
- He plants corn on half the land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x2)
- The plane landed after 3 hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x3)
- The coin landed on tails 6 times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x4)
- Frogs live both on land and in water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x5)
- The bird landed on the windowsill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x6)
- Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x7)
- After a week at sea, the sailors saw land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x8)
- The cat always lands on its feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x9)
- What a blessed land that must be! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/#x10)

### note

As ground, land is uncountable: «a lot of land»; as a country, countable: «lands». Verb past: landed. As an area it is split by fractions or multiplied by a rate per acre. Trap: «landed» in a flight story marks the end time (take-off time + flight time).

### In the corpora

- [Before an election, leaflets with smiling faces land on the mat: each candidate explains what they promise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/2/)
- [Knowing about gossip is one thing; knowing what to do when it lands on you is the grown-up part.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/50-rumours-about-classmates-and-secrets/0/)
- [Plane crashes and terror attacks are on the news because they are very rare; millions of flights land safely every day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/14/)
- [Jonathan, a giant tortoise on the island of St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/8/)
- [Butterflies and flies taste with their feet, so a red admiral landing on a rotting plum is tasting it as it lands.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «land» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/land/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.