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LANDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does landed mean?
• LANDED (adjective)
The adjective LANDED has 1 sense:
1. owning or consisting of land or real estate
Familiarity information: LANDED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Owning or consisting of land or real estate
Context example:
landed property
Antonym:
landless (owning no land)
Context examples
I am thin, so, with his aid, I got out, but feet foremost, and, as we were only a few feet above ground, landed unhurt.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Curiosity landed near Mount Sharp in 2012.
(Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations, NASA)
No spacecraft has yet landed on Europa; however, NASA intends to undertake a number of flybys around the moon with the Europa Clipper, which will be launched in 2022.
(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
When they looked closely at videos taken of the mosquitos in action, they noticed the insects landed much less frequently on graphene than on bare skin.
(Graphene shield shows promise in blocking mosquito bites, National Institutes of Health)
That's the way it landed on me, but I guess I ain't up much on poetry, miss.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The last storm of global magnitude that enveloped Mars was in 2007, five years before Curiosity landed there.
(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)
Using data from the Curiosity rover, the team has determined that, long ago, water helped deposit sediment into Gale Crater, where the rover landed more than three years ago.
(NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars, NASA)
He kept moving over the moon’s surface, and with only six seconds of fuel left, he found the ideal spot and landed.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I landed next morning, and saw once more my native country, after an absence of five years and six months complete.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Maud, who had prepared me for disappointment, and who had been sprightly and vivacious all day, broke down as we landed in our own little cove.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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