landed

[lan-did]

adjective

1. owning land, especially an estate.

   landed gentry.

2. consisting of land.

   landed property.

3. after shipping; delivered.

   a landed price.

landed

/ ˈlændɪd /

adjective

1. owning land

   landed gentry

2. consisting of or including land

   a landed estate

Other Word Forms

• unlanded adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of landed¹

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

The oldest went online in 1969 — the year the U.S. landed on the moon.

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ChatGPT provided him with an itinerary that had him on a plane from Paris to Biarritz, France, before his flight from New York to Paris had even landed.

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When the ball landed in the right-center field bleachers, a party more than three decades in the making broke out among the 44,353 in attendance at the Rogers Centre.

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By the time she landed in New York, she was hungover and overwhelmed with emotion.

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On that day, shrapnel landed on a California Highway Patrol cruiser and motorcycle after an artillery shell exploded in midair prematurely, prompting an investigation from the Marines.

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