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land: the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"; material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"; United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991); the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city"; reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul"; cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"; arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"; bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"; deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"

dystopia collapse: a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror; state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror

Never-Never land collapse: a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination

Eden collapse: a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man); any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

wonderland collapse: an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders; a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder

kingdom come collapse: the end of time; "you can wet the bed till kingdom come, for all I care"; the next world; "he nearly blew us to kingdom come"

utopia collapse: an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal; a work of fiction describing a utopia; a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island; ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects

sod collapse: an informal British term for a youth or man; "the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink"; cover with sod

paddy collapse: rice in the husk either gathered or still in the field; an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown; (slur) a person of Irish descent

landholding collapse: a holding in the form of land; ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land

talk down collapse: direct and control (the flight of an airplane during landing) via radio; "the control tower talked down the plane whose pilot fell ill"; belittle through talk; speak in a condescending manner, as if to a child; "He talks down to her"

prowler collapse: someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions

poacher collapse: small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters; a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs); someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another

carpetbagger collapse: an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"