Synonyms for land
Another word for land is ground, soil or domain. Below are 23 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: landed, lands.
1. noun: the land on which real estate is located
2. noun: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- ground synonyms
- soil synonyms
3. noun: territory over which rule or control is exercised
- domain synonyms
- demesne
4. noun: the solid part of the earth's surface
- ground synonyms
- earth synonyms
- dry land
- solid ground
- terra firma
5. noun: the territory occupied by a nation
6. noun: a domain in which something is dominant
- kingdom
- realm synonyms
7. noun: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use
- estate synonyms
- acres
- landed estate
- demesne
8. noun: the people who live in a nation or country
- country synonyms
- nation synonyms
9. noun: a politically organized body of people under a single government
- state synonyms
- country synonyms
- nation synonyms
- commonwealth synonyms
- body politic synonyms
- res publica synonyms
10. noun: agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
- farming synonyms
11. verb: reach or come to rest
- set down synonyms
12. verb: cause to come to the ground
- put down synonyms
- bring down synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- real property
- real estate
- homestead
- realty
- immovable
- farmstead
- bottom synonyms
- object synonyms
- physical object
- turf synonyms
- cultivated land synonyms
- farmland synonyms
- sod synonyms
- wetland
- badlands
- permafrost
- tillage
- overburden
- tilled land synonyms
- rangeland
- sward
- region synonyms
- empire
- duchy
- grand duchy
- principality
- emirate
- imperium
- barony
- fiefdom
Land in word games
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Questions people ask
What is another word for land?
You can say ground, soil, domain, demesne or earth instead of land. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the land on which real estate is located".
What is the opposite of land?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for land; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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Senses and synonyms from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0); the most common words come first. Browse more on the synonyms and antonyms hub.