DRY LAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dry land mean? 

• DRY LAND (noun)
  The noun DRY LAND has 1 sense:

1. the solid part of the earth's surface

  Familiarity information: DRY LAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRY LAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The solid part of the earth's surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma

Context example:

he dropped the logs on the ground

Hypernyms ("dry land" is a kind of...):

object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)

Part meronym:

earth; globe; world (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dry land"):

isthmus (a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas)

wonderland (a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder)

slash (an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind))

champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

oxbow (the land inside an oxbow bend in a river)

neck (a narrow elongated projecting strip of land)

mainland (the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula)

land mass; landmass (a large continuous extent of land)

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

forest; timber; timberland; woodland (land that is covered with trees and shrubs)

foreland (land forming the forward margin of something)

floor (the ground on which people and animals move about)

coastal plain (a plain adjacent to a coast)

cape; ness (a strip of land projecting into a body of water)

beachfront (a strip of land running along a beach)

archipelago (a group of many islands in a large body of water)

Instance hyponyms:

America (North America and South America and Central America)

 Context examples 

London is full of Mediterranean men, but I trust that in a week there will not be an officer amongst you all with his feet on dry land.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Simultaneously, they evolved the traits needed to survive introduction into the harsher environment of dry land.

(Enterococci may have evolved antimicrobial resistance millions of years ago, NIH)

Ancient Venus had more dry land overall than Earth, especially in the tropics.

(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)

In short, his house—or rather his boat, for he lives in one, on dry land—is full of people who are objects of his generosity and kindness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I found each wave, instead of the big, smooth glossy mountain it looks from shore or from a vessel's deck, was for all the world like any range of hills on dry land, full of peaks and smooth places and valleys.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was a delightful door cut in the side, and it was roofed in, and there were little windows in it; but the wonderful charm of it was, that it was a real boat which had no doubt been upon the water hundreds of times, and which had never been intended to be lived in, on dry land.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“That comes—as you call it—of being arrant asses,” retorted the doctor, “and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough. I think it most probable—though of course it's only an opinion—that you'll all have the deuce to pay before you get that malaria out of your systems. Camp in a bog, would you? Silver, I'm surprised at you. You're less of a fool than many, take you all round; but you don't appear to me to have the rudiments of a notion of the rules of health.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)