Commentary: LAND[+location][+property][+acreage] landed estate, acres, demesne - extensive landed property (especially in the countryside) retained by the owner for his own use (owned land)
Examples:
The family owned a large estate on Long Island.
He built the house on land leased from the city.
You better get off of my land.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: LAND[+substance][+ground][+soil] ground, soil, dry land, earth, solid ground - material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow
Examples:
The land had never been plowed.
Good agricultural land.
The plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land.
The land shook for several minutes.
He dropped logs on the ground.
There is no work on the land anymore.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: LAND[+location][+territory][+owned][+by_government][+sovereign] domain, demesne, country, state - territory ruled or occupied by a nation
Examples:
After the war, their nation gave up the land to the neighboring country.
The explorers claimed all these lands for Spain.
From the ship he could finally see the shoreline of the land of his birth.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: LAND[+group][+people][+body][+sociopolitical][+governed] nation, country, a people - the people who live in a nation or a country
Examples:
A statement that sums up the land's mood.
The news was announced to the entire land.
The whole land worshipped him.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 8
Commentary: LAND[+organization][+institution][+governing][+of_nation][+sovereign] state, nation, country, commonwealth, res publica, body politic - a politically organized body of people under a single government
Examples:
It is the highest court in the land.
With the dictatorship removed, they are living in a free land.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 9
Commentary: This sense is to be used when it isn't clear if the reference is to Senses 3, 4, or 5.
Examples:
The politician spoke in glowing terms of the great land we all live in.
People across the land are taking up this cause.
He is probably the richest self-made entrepreneur in the land.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: LAND[+concept][+realm][+characterized] a domain in which something is dominant, a metaphoric, abstract usage of 'territory'
Examples:
In the land of hard facts and reason such flimsy speculations won't survive.
It was a land of make-believe.
Silicon Valley remains the premiere land of opportunity.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6
Commentary: Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land - United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)
Examples:
Our polaroid cameras exist thanks to Land.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10