the land

noun

: land in the countryside that is thought of as providing a simple and good way of living

He wanted to move/get back to the land.

Examples of the land in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

After shuttering some five decades later, the land was largely vacant until the former mayor of Seattle, Paul Schell, and his wife, Pam, built their dream hotel from the ground up. — Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Aug. 2026

No court in the land would ever be so lenient as to lop off almost two-thirds of a punishment this way. — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

Listing agent Kristina Agustin of Vista Sotheby’s International Realty said the land carries a deeper local lineage than most lifestyle properties that change hands in California wine regions. — Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Spain disputes this outright, arguing the 1713 treaty ceded only the land and never granted Gibraltar any territorial waters at all. — Frank Ahrens, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Rhymes for the land

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand