ADJ
- dry
- It was good to be on dry land again after months at sea
VERB + LAND
- reach
- The explorers reached land after a long voyage
- sight
- In the distance the crew sighted land
- reclaim
- The new project will reclaim the land from the sea
LAND + NOUN
- mass
- chains of volcanoes running along the edge of continental land masses
- animal, mammal
- battle, war
- forces
- With the land forces defeated, everything now rested on the navy
PREP
- by ~
- It's impossible to reach this beach by land because of the high cliffs
- on ~
- Some animals can live both on land and in water
ADJ
- good, prime
- prime building land
- fertile, rich
- rich agricultural land land that is rich in mineral deposits
- marginal, poor
- animals grazing on marginal land that was previously heath or moorland
- arid, dry, hard, parched
- The land was very dry and hard after the long, hot summer
- marshy
- barren
- derelict, waste (also wasteland)
- A new shopping centre will be built on the derelict land
- contaminated
- empty, unused, vacant
- uncultivated, virgin, wild
- agricultural, arable, cultivated, farm (also farmland), farming
- grazing
- industrial
- building, housing
- green belt
- rural, urban
- private
- public
- common
- This used to be common land, where everyone had the right to graze animals
- open
- They finally got out of the town and reached open land
- flat, low-lying
- hill, undulating
- coastal, forest, meadow
QUANT
- parcel, piece, plot, scrap, strip, tract
- Every scrap of land is used for growing food. The college owns vast tracts of land
VERB + LAND
- have, hold, own
- The inhabitants of a village held land in common
- acquire, buy, purchase
- sell
- cultivate, farm, plough, work
- irrigate
- clear
- The land has been cleared ready for building
- develop
- They were refused permission to develop the land
- occupy
- During the war their lands were occupied by the enemy
- seize
- allocate, distribute, redistribute
- grant sb
- He was granted land by the king
- live off
- It's very fertile countryside where you can just live off the land
- farm, work (on)
- His family had always worked the land
- leave
- Many people leave the land to find work in towns and cities
- get/go back to
- He's tired of living in cities, and wants to get back to the land
LAND + VERB
- adjoin sth
- a piece of land adjoining a disused railway line
LAND + NOUN
- owner, ownership
- acquisition, purchase
- reclamation
- development
- use
- prices, values
- dispute 3 the land farming land
ADJ
- ancestral, native
- the tribe's ancestral lands
- distant
- He travelled to many distant lands
- alien, foreign, strange
- She was all alone in a strange land
- promised (often figurative)
- the promised land of progressive education
- cloud cuckoo, never-never (both figurative)
- Anyone who thinks this legislation will be effective is living in cloud cuckoo land
ADV
- safely
- The pilot managed to land the plane safely
VERB + LAND
- be due to
- come down to
- The plane slowly came down to land
- be forced to
- The plane was forced to land in a nearby field
- manage to
PREP
- at
- We are due to land at Heathrow at 12.15
ADV
- awkwardly, badly
- I landed awkwardly and twisted my ankle
- expertly, neatly
- He tensed himself for the jump and landed expertly on the other side
- heavily
- lightly
PREP
- on
- She fell and landed heavily on her back