adjective
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owning land
landed gentry
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consisting of or including land
a landed estate
Other Word Forms
- unlanded adjective
Etymology
Origin of landed
before 1000; late Middle English ( land, -ed 3 ); replacing Old English gelandod (rare), past participle of *landian to endow with land ( -ed 2 )
Example Sentences
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Tonight, all attention will turn to Launch Pad 39B - the same historic stretch of concrete from which the US Apollo programme first landed men on the Moon in 1969.
From BBC
I was born in 2001, 29 years after the last man landed on the moon.
The budget we landed on looks something like this:
From MarketWatch
“I think we can all agree, particularly today, that landing on the moon is extremely hard,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said at a press conference after Athena landed.
From MarketWatch
Economists had widely anticipated March’s activity rebound as factory workers returned to work and business activity normalized after this year’s extended Lunar New Year holiday, which landed in February.
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