land – English noun declension

English noun forms of land

Noun: land
Singularland
Plurallands

Sample Sentences

  • Most insects live on land.
  • There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
  • They come from a faraway land.
  • wet land
  • good or bad land for growing potatoes
  • I'm going to Disneyland.
  • Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
  • He got an awful land when the police arrived.
  • Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch. [1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record, page 72:]
  • Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
  • her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:]
  • 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. [2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin, editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16:]
  • The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer. [2012 November 15, “One Way to Get Off”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller):]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-om
4. Proto-Germanic *landą
5. Proto-West Germanic *land
6. Old English land
7. Middle English lond
8. English land
9. From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), Yola lhoan, lloan, loan, londe, lone (“land”), North Frisian loun, luin, lun, Lön, lönj, löön (“land”), Saterland Frisian Lound (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Limburgish Land, landj, Laïnt (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), Luxembourgish and German Land (“land, country, state”), Vilamovian łaond (“land”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lędo (“heath, wasteland”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”). See: Middle English Nouns 'lond', Old English Nouns 'land', Dutch Nouns 'land', German Nouns 'Land', Swedish Nouns 'land', French Nouns 'lande'.

Verbs referencing "land"

Danish Nouns land, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns land, Czech Nouns lado, Belarusan Nouns ляда, Ukrainian Nouns лядо.