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

Woven through the stay were gifts from local makers and a Caymanian liaison who speaks the language, understands the land, and moves through it the way only someone from the soil does. —Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026

Since the land was agricultural, Soriano worries that pesticides or chemicals in the soil might harm her daughters. —Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026

Leo, who spent two decades working as a missionary in Peru, would be intimately familiar with the plight of Indigenous peoples in mining areas and the environmental impact of extraction industries on the land. —ABC News, 20 June 2026

There were fears in the community that a new owner of the land might sell the sign or discard it. —Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 20 June 2026

Rhymes for the land

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