land

Pronunciation: [lænd]

Average Rank: 707

Source: ECDICT

n. 陆地, 地面, 地界, 地产, 国土, 土地 vi. 登陆, 登岸, 到达 vt. 使上岸, 使登陆, 使到达 [计] 连接盘; 焊盘

n. the land on which real estate is located
n. material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
n. the solid part of the earth's surface
n. United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)

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Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk toefl ielts

Plural: lands

Past: landed

Past Participle: landed

Present Participle: landing

3rd Person: lands

Word Frequency Rankings

#326

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 96.7% (Top 96.7% most frequent)

96.7%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#1458

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 85.4% (Top 85.4% most frequent)

85.4%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

#336

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 96.6% (Top 96.6% most frequent)

96.6%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.