 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Landed \Land"ed\, adjective
1. Having an estate in land.
The House of Commons must consist, for the most part, of landed men. --Addison.
2. Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Land \Land\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Landed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Landing}.]
1. To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak.
2. To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
3. To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.
4. Specifically: (Aeronautics) To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
landed
adjective: owning or consisting of land or real estate; "the landed gentry"; "landed property" [ant: {landless}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "landed": blessed with, enfeoffed, having, having and holding, holding, in possession of, landholding, landowning, master of, occupying, owning, possessed of, possessing, propertied, property-owning, proprietary, seized of, tenured, worth
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |