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LANDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Owning or consisting of land or real estate
Example:
landed property
Classified under:
Antonym:
landless (owning no land)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb land
Context examples:
Then giving a great spring, he shot through the air and landed safely on the other side.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
It landed me on the flat between the town and the sea, which I could make straight across, and so save myself a considerable circuit by the high road.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Welcome to Camp Laurence!" said the young host, as they landed with exclamations of delight.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As he gave up and stumbled inside his circle, a wolf leaped for him, missed, and landed with all four feet in the coals.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
We landed, and proceeded to Paris.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
'Boys,' said I, 'here's Flint's treasure; let's land and find it.' The cap'n was displeased at that, but my messmates were all of a mind and landed.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“A raw squire, new landed,” said another.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even Frederick, my eldest son, you see, who will perhaps inherit as considerable a landed property as any private man in the county, has his profession.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He landed me on the pavement.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then came a heavy blow, and down he fell in the middle of the moonlit road, flapping and jumping among the dust like a trout new landed.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
