lands
Britishplural noun
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holdings in land
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the part of a farm on which crops are grown
Example Sentences
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Now, Native American tribes are working to expand their role in film and TV production to help revitalize and diversify their lands’ economies, as well as improve representation of Indigenous people onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2022
The race for the state’s top lands’ chief is centered on wildfire prevention, as Washington emerges from a brutal fire season.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2020
Even at the more traditional plantations studied, Potter said, slavery was visitors’ top interest post-tour, beating out features like the gardens and the lands’ original owners.
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2019
European colonization brought mostly disaster for the lands’ original inhabitants.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
In 1517, when he wrote his 'Complaint of Peace cast forth from all lands', he was a man and one of Charles' councillors; but Holland was still weeping and refusing comfort.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
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