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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

土地

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tǔdì

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Land/lænd/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"徒步旅行者探索了国家公园的广阔土地。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water.

    "The hikers explored the vast land of the national park."
As verb
  1. 1

    To bring a vessel or aircraft down to the ground.

    "The pilot managed to land the plane safely despite the storm."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Proto-Germanic *landą ('land, territory'), with cognates in Old English 'land', Old High German 'lant', and Old Norse 'land'. Over time, the meaning expanded from a specific territorial region or solid ground to include the act of arriving from the air or water.

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