Land

• Rhymes: -ænd

Land

1. A surname from Middle English.
   • 2012, Peter Moormann, Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance, page 82:

     After the success of Secret of Monkey Island (1990), composer Michael Land longed for a more flexible system to integrate his music into a game.

• Land camera
• Land effect

• Landi

“Heath-dweller; pasture-dweller”, probably from lëndë (“matter, timber”), connected to lëndinë (“pasture, grassland”).

Land m

1. a male given name

From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. Cognate with German Land, Dutch, English, and Danish land, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /lɒnd/

Land n (plural Länder)

1. land
2. country

• Landt, Lande

From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Compare Dutch, English, and Danish land, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).

• IPA^(key): /lant/, /lɑnt/

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• Rhymes: -ant

Land n (strong, genitive Landes or Lands, plural Länder or (elevated or poetic) Lande, diminutive Ländchen n or Ländlein n)

1. country (territory of a nation)
2. state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
3. land (real estate or landed property)
4. land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
5. country, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)

• The normal plural is Länder. The plural Lande is elevated or poetic, and is occasionally used in modern German to mean "countryside, vast areas", e.g. die weiten Lande Sibiriens – "the wide lands of Siberia". It is also found in fixed expressions such as Niederlande (“Netherlands”).

• See: Category:de:Countries
• Abendland
• Morgenland
• Neuland
• Oberland
• Unterland
• Zweistromland

• → Ladin: lont
• → Polish: ląd

• “Land” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Land” in Duden online
• “Land” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Land”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

• Lant (Altenhofen spelling)
• lant (Wiesemann spelling)

From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- + *-om.^[1]

Cognate with German, Luxembourgish, and Pennsylvania German Land.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlant/
• Rhymes: -ant
• Syllabification: Land

Land n (plural Land or Lenner, diminutive Lendche)

1. land (part of Earth not covered by water)
2. land (real estate or landed property)

   Synonym: Terreno

3. (uncountable) land; soil

   Near-synonym: Grund

   Er zackerd das Land.

   He ploughs the land.

4. (uncountable) terrain

   Evenes Land

   Flat terrain

5. country

• land (Veldeke spelling)
• Laïnt (Eupen)
• Landj, Lond, Lound
• Lank, Lonk (East Limburgish-Ripuarian)

Inherited from Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą. Compare the variant landj.

• IPA^(key): /ˈla˨nt/, [ˈlɑ(ː)˨nt]
• Rhymes: -ant

Land n (plural Länder or Län or Lande, dative singular Lan or Land, diminutive Ländsche) (German-based spelling)

1. (uncountable) land
2. (countable) country (territory of a nation)
3. (countable) state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
4. (countable) land (real estate or landed property)
5. (uncountable) land (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
6. (uncountable) country, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)

From Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

• IPA^(key): /lɑnt/

  Rhymes: -ɑnt

Land n (plural Länner)

1. (uncountable) land
2. country

From Middle High German lant. Compare German Land, Dutch land, English land.

Land n (plural Lenner)

1. land
2. country
3. soil, garden bed