land: Meaning and Definition of

land

1. to bring to or set on land: to land passengers or goods from a ship; to land an airplane.
2. to bring into or cause to arrive in a particular place, position, or condition: His behavior will land him in jail.
3. to catch or capture; gain; win: to land a job.
4. to bring (a fish) to land, or into a boat, etc., as with a hook or a net.

1. to come to land or shore: The boat lands at Cherbourg.
2. to go or come ashore from a ship or boat.
3. to alight upon a surface, as the ground, a body of water, or the like: to land on both feet.
4. to hit or strike the ground, as from a height: The ball landed at the far side of the court.
5. to strike and come to rest on a surface or in something: The golf ball landed in the lake.
6. to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes fol. by up): to land in trouble; to land up 40 miles from home.
7. to reprimand; criticize: His mother landed on him for coming home so late.
8. See(def. 27).

Land

1. 1909–91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera.

-land

1. a combining form ofhinterland; lowland.