Place vs. Land — What's the Difference?

A particular position, point, or area in space; a location

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 portion of space designated or available for or being used by someone

A state of Germany or Austria.

A position in a sequence or series, typically one ordered on the basis of merit

Put (someone or something) on land from a boat

A square or short street

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

Put in a particular position

Cause someone to be in (a difficult situation)

Find a home or employment for

Inflict (a blow) on someone

Identify or classify as being of a specified type or as holding a specified position in a sequence or hierarchy

The solid ground of the earth.

Score (a goal) by a place kick.

Ground or soil

An area with definite or indefinite boundaries; a portion of space.

A topographically or functionally distinct tract

Room or space, especially adequate space

A nation; a country.

The particular portion of space occupied by or allocated to a person or thing.

The people of a nation, district, or region.

A building or an area set aside for a specified purpose

Lands Territorial possessions or property.

A dwelling; a house

Public or private landed property; real estate.

A business establishment or office.

(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.

A locality, such as a town or city

An agricultural or farming area

Abbr. Pl. A public square or street with houses in a town.

Farming considered as a way of life.

A space in which one person, such as a passenger or spectator, can sit or stand.

An area or realm

A setting for one person at a table.

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

A position regarded as belonging to someone or something else; stead

To bring to and unload on land

A particular point that one has reached, as in a book

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

A particular spot, as on the body

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

The proper or designated role or function

To catch and pull in (a fish)

The proper or customary position or order

(Informal) To win; secure

A suitable setting or occasion

(Informal) To deliver

The appropriate right or duty

To come to shore

Social station

To disembark

A particular situation or circumstance

To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface

High rank or status.

(Informal) To arrive in a place or condition

A job, post, or position

To come to rest in a certain way or place

Relative position in a series; standing.

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

(Games) Second position for betting purposes, as in a horserace.

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.

The specified stage in a list of points to be made, as in an argument

A country or region.

(Mathematics) A position in a numeral or series.

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

To put in or as if in a particular place or position; set.

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

To put in a specified relation or order

Realm, domain.

To offer for consideration

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

To find accommodation or employment for.

A shock or fright.

To put into a particular condition

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

To arrange for the publication or display of

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

To appoint to a post

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

To rank in an order or sequence

(obsolete) The ground or floor.

To estimate

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

To identify or classify in a particular context

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.

To give an order for

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

To apply or arrange for

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

To make or obtain a connection for (a telephone call).

Lant; urine

To sell (a new issue of stock, bonds, or other securities).

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

To adjust (one's voice) for the best possible effects.

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

To be among those who finish a competition or race, especially to finish second.

(intransitive) To come into rest.

(physical) An area; somewhere within an area.

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

An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.

(transitive) To bring to land.

A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.

To capture or arrest.

An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.

(transitive) To acquire; to secure.

Any area of the earth: a region.

To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score

The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.

(transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.

The area where one lives: one's home, formerly country estates and farms.

(intransitive) (of a punch) To connect

An area of the body, especially the skin.

(intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.

Urine. See Lant.

An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.

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.

A location or position in space.

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.

A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.

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

A passage or extract from a book or document.

The inhabitants of a nation or people.

A topic.

The mainland, in distinction from islands.

A state of mind.

The ground or floor.

A chess position; a square of the chessboard.

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

(social) A responsibility or position in an organization.

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.

A role or purpose; a station.

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

The position of a contestant in a competition.

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.

(horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.

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

The position as a member of a sports team.

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

A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.

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.

Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

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

Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.

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.

Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

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

(transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.

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.

(intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.

The land on which real estate is located;

To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.

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

To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.

The solid part of the earth's surface;

(transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

Territory over which rule or control is exercised;

(transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.

The territory occupied by a nation;

(transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).

A domain in which something is dominant;

(transitive) To establish a call connection by telephone or similar.

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

(transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc.

The people who live in a nation or country;

To place-kick (a goal).

A politically organized body of people under a single government;

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.

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

A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.

Working the land as an occupation or way of life;

A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country.

Reach or come to rest;

Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling.

Cause to come to the ground;

Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied).

Bring into a different state;

A definite position or passage of a document.

Bring ashore;

Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place.

Deliver (a blow);

Reception; effect; - implying the making room for.

Arrive on shore;

Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; - usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude.

Shoot at and force to come down;

The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third.

Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land;

To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis.

Operating or living or growing in water;

To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed.

To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.

To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend.

To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.

To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially.

To place-kick ( a goal).

To recognize or identify (a person).

A point located with respect to surface features of some region;

Any area set aside for a particular purpose;

An abstract mental location;

A general vicinity;

The function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another;

A particular situation;

Where you live at a particular time;

A job in an organization;

The particular portion of space occupied by a physical object;

Proper or designated social situation;

A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane);

The passage that is being read;

Proper or appropriate position or location;

A public square with room for pedestrians;

An item on a list or in a sequence;

A blank area;

Put into a certain place or abstract location;

Place somebody in a particular situation or location;

Assign a rank or rating to;

Assign a location to;

To arrange for;

Take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal;

Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal;

Recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something;

Assign to (a job or a home)

Locate;

Estimate;

Identify the location or place of;

Make an investment;

Assign to a station

Finish second or better in a horse or dog race;

Sing a note with the correct pitch