Meaning of land in English

They barely reached the stop sign two car paces ahead of oncoming traffic and leaped over the highway, landing right next to the unknown subject.

Let it roll on full good, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to the broader lands and better days.

By the late thirteenth century, those for whom landed income was the chief source of revenue faced an uncertain future.

In new lands, lords were prepared to offer special advantages to recruits, including a greater measure of freedom.

They bought up lands from secular dukes who were only too keen to mortgage them.

At his death in 1500, he left his principal messuage and a workhouse to his elder son and other lands to a second son.

Both sides were busy attempting to attract settlers to their lands.

Individual members prospered as major trading princes and ruled their lands in accordance with local tradition.

A simple question of who has the rights to ownership and use of particular lands cannot be settled on this basis alone.

The arable lands are not considered to be part of the farmstead here.

Moreover, much of the forest that has been lost or forest that remains, covered lands that had earlier been populated and farmed.

To promote this value on private lands, the agency subsidizes habitat connectivity and livestock vaccination.

At the same time, in many accessible areas there are clear indications of agricultural expansion into unsustainable lands.

The fact that the rural poor have access to the most fragile lands induces significant environmental losses and soil degradation.

As cocoa specialization provided greater remuneration to the farmer's labour, it soon became the crop of choice for all smallholders who settled in forested lands.

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