lands
plural of “land” — the land on which real estate is located
An inflected form of land · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,641 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,311 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the land on which real estate is located he built the house on land leased from the city
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) also: ground, soil the land had never been plowedgood agricultural soil
- territory over which rule or control is exercised also: domain, demesne his domain extended into Europehe made it the law of the land
- the solid part of the earth's surface also: dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over landthe earth shook for several minutes
- the territory occupied by a nation also: country, state he returned to the land of his birthhe visited several European countries
- a domain in which something is dominant also: kingdom, realm the untroubled kingdom of reasona land of make-believe
lands in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The glebe lands lie beyond the village.
Castle Rackrent · Maria Edgeworth · Chapter 1
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Come from the far lands, Come from the star lands, Come as before!
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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Not even in their query were the newer lands of our country then alike.
The Purchase Price · Emerson Hough · Chapter 1
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Mailed in gold and fire he stands, And, with splendours shaken, Bids the slumbering seas and lands Quicken and awaken.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social · James Runciman · Chapter 1
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At the mouth of each creek the river made a great bend, and in the sweep of each were rich bottom lands.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1