lands

• abducts
• accomplishes
• accumulates
• achieves
• acquires
• acreage
• alights
• amasses
• anchors
• annexes
• appears
• apprehends
• area
• arrests
• arrives
• attains
• bags
• bays
• beaches
• belly-lands
• belts
• berths
• blows in
• brings in
• captures
• carries
• catches
• checks in
• city-states
• clasps
• clears
• client states
• clutches
• collars
• colonies
• comes
• comes by
• commonwealth
• commonwealths
• condominia
• condominiums
• cops
• corners
• corrals
• corridors
• countries
• country
• country home
• country place
• county
• crash-lands
• crown
• debarks
• demesne
• democracies
• dependencies
• detains
• dictatorships
• disembarks
• districts
• division
• docks
• domain
• domains
• dominion
• dominions
• draws
• duchies
• dukedoms
• dynasty
• earns
• emirates
• empire
• empires
• enmeshes
• ensnares
• entangles
• entraps
• farm
• fatherlands
• fetches
• field
• finca
• fists
• freehold
• gains
• garners
• gets
• gets in
• gets through
• gloms
• gloves
• grabs
• grapples
• grasps
• great powers
• grips
• grosses
• grounds
• halters
• harbors
• hits
• holdings
• holds
• homelands
• hooks
• immeshes
• kidnaps
• kingdoms
• knocks down
• lassos
• latitudes
• lights
• makes
• makes port
• mandates
• meshes
• microstates
• ministates
• monarchies
• monarchy
• monocracies
• moors
• motherlands
• nabs
• nails
• nation
• nation-states
• nations
• necks
• neighborhoods
• nets
• nobbles
• obtains
• occupies
• oligarchies
• parcel
• parts
• perches
• picks up
• plantation
• possessions
• powers
• principalities
• principality
• procures
• province
• provinces
• pulls down
• pulls in
• puts in
• quinta
• racks up
• ranch
• ranges
• raps
• reaches
• reacquires
• realizes
• realm
• realms
• reaps
• reattains
• recaptures
• regains
• regions
• reign
• remakes
• rends
• republics
• residence
• roosts
• ropes
• rule
• rural seat
• scepter
• scores
• sea powers
• secures
• seigniories
• seignories
• seizes
• settlements
• settles
• shows up
• snags
• snares
• snatches
• soil
• sovereigns
• sovereignties
• sovereignty
• sovrans
• sovranties
• sphere
• state
• states
• sultanates
• superpowers
• suzerainty
• sway
• takes over
• terrains
• territories
• territory
• theocracies
• throne
• ties up
• touches down
• tract
• tracts
• traps
• trust territories
• turns up
• vicinities
• villa
• welfare states
• wins
• world powers
• wrests
• zones

• accords
• arises
• ascends
• blasts off
• boards
• checks out
• climbs
• discharges
• drops
• embarks
• flees
• flies
• floats
• forfeits
• frees
• gives
• gives up
• glides
• goes
• grants
• hands over
• hangs
• hovers
• launches
• leaves
• liberates
• loosens
• loses
• misses
• pays
• planes
• releases
• relinquishes
• rises
• sails
• soars
• surrenders
• takes off
• unhands
• vamooses
• wings
• yields

• noun
  1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
  2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.
  3. A country or region.
  4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
  5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
  6. (often in combination) realm, domain.
  7. The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
  8. A shock or fright.
  9. A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
  10. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
  11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
  12. The ground or floor.
  13. The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
  14. 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.
  15. A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
• verb
  1. To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
  2. To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
  3. To come into rest.
  4. To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
  5. To bring to land.
  6. To acquire; to secure.
  7. To deliver.

• The explorer set out to discover new lands beyond the horizon.
• Lands once fertile became barren due to years of drought.
• The artist drew inspiration from the rugged beauty of the coastal lands.
• The treaty established clear boundaries between neighboring lands to prevent disputes.
• Immigrants dreamed of finding opportunity and prosperity in distant lands.

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