Land vs. Realm — What's the Difference?

Land is the solid surface of Earth that is not permanently submerged in water. The vast majority of human activity throughout history has occurred in land areas that support agriculture, habitat, and various natural resources.

A realm is a community or territory over which a sovereign rules. The term is commonly used to describe a monarchical or dynastic state.

A state of Germany or Austria.

A community or territory over which a sovereign rules; a kingdom.

Put (someone or something) on land from a boat

An area or sphere, as of knowledge or activity

Come down through the air and rest on the ground or another surface

An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.

Cause someone to be in (a difficult situation)

The domain of a certain abstraction.

Inflict (a blow) on someone

(computing) A scope of operation in networking or security.

The solid ground of the earth.

A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially by a king.

Ground or soil

An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise — usually ruled or created by a mystical character.

A topographically or functionally distinct tract

A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.

A nation; a country.

A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.

The people of a nation, district, or region.

Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.

Lands Territorial possessions or property.

A domain in which something is dominant;

Public or private landed property; real estate.

A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about;

(Law) The solid material of the earth as well as the natural and manmade things attached to it and the rights and interests associated with it.

The domain ruled by a king or queen

An agricultural or farming area

Farming considered as a way of life.

An area or realm

The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

To bring to and unload on land

To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface

(Informal) To cause to arrive in a place or condition

To catch and pull in (a fish)

(Informal) To win; secure

(Informal) To deliver

To come to shore

To disembark

To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface

(Informal) To arrive in a place or condition

To come to rest in a certain way or place

The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.

A country or region.

A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

Realm, domain.

(agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

A shock or fright.

(electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.

On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.

(travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

(nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.

(ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.

A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Lant; urine

(intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

(dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.

(intransitive) To come into rest.

(intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

(transitive) To bring to land.

To capture or arrest.

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.

To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

Urine. See Lant.

The solid part of the surface of the earth; - opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

The inhabitants of a nation or people.

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

The ground or floor.

The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.

The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; - called also landing.

In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.

To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.

To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los Angeles.

To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.

To reach and come to rest on land after having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane landed in Washington.

The land on which real estate is located;

Material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use);

The solid part of the earth's surface;

Territory over which rule or control is exercised;

The territory occupied by a nation;

A domain in which something is dominant;

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use;

The people who live in a nation or country;

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one-step photographic process (1909-1991)

Working the land as an occupation or way of life;

Reach or come to rest;

Cause to come to the ground;

Bring into a different state;

Bring ashore;

Deliver (a blow);

Arrive on shore;

Shoot at and force to come down;

Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land;

Operating or living or growing in water;