bland | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave |
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(adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
(adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: flat |
borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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coastland | (noun) land in a coastal area | - |
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dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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eland | (noun) either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes | - |
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fairyland | (noun) something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) | Synonyms: fantasy world, phantasy world |
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(noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, faery |
farmland | (noun) a rural area where farming is practiced | Synonyms: farming area |
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(noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
fatherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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fenland | (noun) low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water | Synonyms: fen, marsh, marshland |
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foreland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: head, headland, promontory |
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(noun) land forming the forward margin of something | - |
gangland | (noun) underworld organizations | Synonyms: gangdom, organized crime |
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garland | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, lei, wreath |
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(noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, miscellany |
(verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
gland | (noun) any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: secreter, secretor, secretory organ |
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grassland | (noun) land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life | - |
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headland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, head, promontory |
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heartland | (noun) the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture | - |
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heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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highland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: upland |
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(noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: upland |
hinterland | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, boondocks |
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homeland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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inland | (adjective) situated away from an area's coast or border | - |
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(adverb) towards or into the interior of a region | - |
island | (noun) a zone or area resembling an island | - |
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(noun) a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water | - |
land | (noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: farming |
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(noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, nation, res publica, state |
(noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: country, nation |
(noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: demesne, domain |
(noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: country, state |
(noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma |
(noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: ground, soil |
(noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, demesne, estate, landed estate |
(noun) the land on which real estate is located | - |
(noun) a domain in which something is dominant | Synonyms: kingdom, realm |
(verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: bring |
(verb) reach or come to rest | Synonyms: set down |
(verb) cause to come to the ground | Synonyms: bring down, put down |
(verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: set ashore, shore |
(verb) bring ashore | - |
(verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: down, shoot down |
(verb) deliver (a blow) | - |
lotusland | (noun) an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence | Synonyms: lotus land |
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lowland | (adjective) of relatively low or level country | - |
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(noun) low level country | - |
mainland | (noun) the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula | - |
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marchland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, borderland, march |
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marshland | (noun) low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water | Synonyms: fen, fenland, marsh |
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midland | (adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country | Synonyms: interior, upcountry |
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(noun) the interior part of a country | - |
moorland | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moor |
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motherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, homeland, mother country, native land |
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northland | (noun) any region lying in or toward the north | - |
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overland | (adjective) traveling or passing over land | - |
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parkland | (noun) a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property | Synonyms: park |
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pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
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ploughland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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plowland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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rangeland | (noun) land suitable for grazing livestock | - |
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screenland | (noun) the personnel of the film industry | Synonyms: filmdom, screen |
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scrubland | (noun) an uncultivated region covered with scrub vegetation | - |
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southland | (noun) any region lying in or toward the south | - |
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swampland | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swamp |
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tableland | (noun) a relatively flat highland | Synonyms: plateau |
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tideland | (noun) land near the sea that is overflowed by the tide | - |
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timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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upland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: highland |
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(noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: highland |
wasteland | (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: barren, waste |
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wetland | (noun) a low area where the land is saturated with water | - |
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wonderland | (noun) an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders | - |
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(noun) a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder | - |
woodland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, timberland |
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