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• present participle of land.

landing

American  

[lan-ding] / ˈlæn dɪŋ /

noun

• landings
  plural

1. the act of a person or thing that lands.

   The pilot brought his plane in for a landing.

2. a place where persons or goods are landed, as from a ship.

   The boat moored at the landing.

3. Architecture.

   1. a platform between flights of stairs.

   2. the floor at the head or foot of a flight of stairs.

4. Shipbuilding.

   1. the overlap of two plates or planks, as in a clinker-built shell.

   2. the distance between the center of a rivet hole and the edge of the plate or shape into which it is cut.

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landing British  

/ ˈlændɪŋ /

noun

1. 1. the act of coming to land, esp after a flight or sea voyage

   2. ( as modifier )

      landing place

2. a place of disembarkation

3. the floor area at the top of a flight of stairs or between two flights of stairs

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Usage

What does landing mean? Landing is the act of returning to the ground after having been in flight or up in the air. It can also be used to refer to the act of returning to the land after having been in water. Landing also commonly refers to an instance of doing this. This especially involves aircraft, as in That was a rough landing. But it can also be applied to a person, as in She’ll have to stick the landing if she wants a perfect score. Landing can also mean a place where ships can dock. It can also refer to the floor at the top of a flight of stairs or the platform between two flights of stairs. The landing often has a bigger surface area than the steps and is usually positioned between flights when they change directions. The word landing comes is also the continuous tense (-ing form) of the verb land, as in We will be landing shortly. Example: I’m much more nervous during the landing than at takeoff.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• postlanding
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• landings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of landing

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at land, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

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landing landings

Around 20 minutes after these codes were signalled, the plane looped back into Saudi Arabia, where it later started its manual descent for landing.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

DELHI—As an aviator, Smit Machchhar had piloted through an in-flight birth, turbulent monsoon skies and a high-wire landing in Greece that stretched his skills to the limit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

A flight headed to Israel from the United Arab Emirates was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after a steep dive and injuries to both pilots.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

US bombers and other planes have since been seen taking off and landing from the base -- the only one on Britain's mainland used for this purpose.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

By mid-April, the snow melted enough that snowplows could clear a path on old logging roads up to a landing above Coldwater Creek.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Rather, their plan is to scale up so-called Operation Carpet, under which drones circulate near Russian airports, forcing air-traffic control to pause takeoffs and landings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Phase I of NASA's Moon Base architecture plan, which is underway now through 2029, calls for more than twenty robotic landings.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

In Robert Capa’s photograph of GIs on the USS Samuel Chase just before the D-Day landings, soldiers play craps with French banknotes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The creation of the unit was announced by French President Emmanuel Macron alongside Zelensky on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in 2024.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

But I’m so thankful to be alive right now, he could take credit for the faked lunar landings and I wouldn’t care.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

Related Words

• dock