land
EN
[lænd] [-ænd] 
US WLand
- Land, sometimes referred to as dry land, is the solid surface of the Earth that is not permanently covered by water. The vast majority of human activity occurs in land areas that support agriculture, habitat, and various natural resources.
- Some life forms (including terrestrial plants and terrestrial animals) have developed from predecessor species that lived in bodies of water.
- Areas where land meets large bodies of water are called coastal zones. The division between land and water is a fundamental concept to humans. The demarcation between land and water can vary by local jurisdiction and other factors.
EN Land 
- NounPLlandsSUF-land
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- Most insects live on land.
- Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
- There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
- A country or region.
- They come from a faraway land.
- A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
- The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
- wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes
- A general country, state, or territory.
- He moved from his home to settle in a faraway land.
- (often in combination) realm, domain.
- I'm going to Disneyland.
- Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
- (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
- (Ireland) COL A fright.
- He got an awful land when the police arrived.
- (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
- In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
- (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
- Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
- OBS The ground or floor.
- (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
- In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
- The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet.
- lant; urine.
- The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
- VerbSGlandsPRlandingPT, PPlanded
- VI To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- The plane is about to land.
- (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- VI To come into rest.
- VI To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
- VT To bring to land.
- It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
- Use the net to land the fish.
- VT To acquire; to secure.
- As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy.
- VT To deliver.
- VI To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
- Adjective
- Of or relating to land.
- Residing or growing on land.
- Of or relating to land.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Ancient Rome took over lands throughout the known world.
- To compensate me for his tree landing on my shed, my neighbor paved my driveway.
- The competition to imperialize foreign lands was another cause of World War I.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The torrential downpour would account for the saturated state of the land.
- When I die, don't bury me deep, / Put a jug of 'lasses at my feet, / And a piece of corn bread in my hand, / Gwine to sop my way to the promised land.
- While settlement in New South Wales was initially confined, many moved outside the boundaries to become squatters, eventually consolidating their originally illegal hold on the land.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of land in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "land" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.