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Definition land in American English
land
noun
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noun
What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
Country is the usual word for talking about a large area of land with recognized political borders, like Italy, Mexico, or Japan: Brazil is a big country.the countries of Europe.Most of the country will have rain tomorrow.
Land can mean the same as country, but it is often a literary word. Native land is sometimes used to describe the country someone belongs to: She longed to return to her native land.
People call a place a land when they want to be mysterious or to sound emotional or old-fashioned: It is the land of my ancestors.My story begins in a land far, far away.
an area that someone owns, often including the buildings on it. You can also refer to someone's lands, and this has the same meaning
Some of his land had been flooded.
a vacant plot of land (=piece of land)
an area of ground, especially one that is used for a particular purpose such as farming or building
acres of agricultural land
an area where the soil has particular qualities
Most of the world's fertile land is already being cultivated.
The boxes eventually drifted to land after being in the sea for a week.
Many people emigrated to Canada believing that it was a land of opportunity.
the land of make-believe
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