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land
noun as in earth's surface; ownable property
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acreage, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, district, earth, estate, farmland, field, ground, home, homeland, nation, parcel, plot, province, ranch, real estate, region, shore, soil, terrain, territory, tract
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acres, dirt, expanse, extent, farming, grounds, holding, loam, mainland, manor, purlieu, quarry, realty, sod, stretch, sweep, tillage
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verb as in arrive, come to rest on
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bring in, check in, come ashore, come down, come in, come to berth, descend upon, drop anchor, flatten out, get down, level off, light on, make land, put down, put in, set down, set on deck, sit down, splash down, take down
Example Sentences
The West Bank - land between Israel and the River Jordan - is home to an estimated three million Palestinians and half a million Jewish settlers.
In 1994, he decided to sell 640 acres of desert land he owned near Yucca Valley and apply most of the proceeds to conservation projects.
For developed land, the agency looks at the hazard of the surrounding areas and estimates how far fire could spill over into urban regions.
"We think it's right these powers are more widely used and it will be for local authorities to make the decisions about what land is appropriate for those powers to be used on," he added.
“It’s the people of the land who are the Resistance, and they were there before Hezbollah,” she said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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