Land
German, noun/lant/
Land is spelled L-A-N-D (4 letters) and appears 295 times per million words in written German, the 316th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Land is a German neuter noun meaning “country (territory of a nation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “die nicht von Meer bedeckte Erdoberfläche”.
What does Land mean in English?
noun
- 1
neutercountry (territory of a nation)
- 2
neuterstate, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy)
- 3
neuterland (real estate or landed property)
- 4
neuterland (part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water)
- 5
neutercountry, countryside (rural area, as opposed to a town or city)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. die nicht von Meer bedeckte Erdoberfläche 2. unabhängiges politisches Gebilde 3. Glied- oder Teilstaat (in bestimmten Staaten) 4. abgrenzbares, historisch oder natürlich zusammengehöriges Gebiet
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Land
- Landes genitive
- Lands genitive
- Länder plural
- Lande honorific plural poetic
- Ländchen diminutive neuter
- Ländlein diminutive neuter
- Ländern dative definite plural
- Landen dative definite honorific
- Landt alternative
- L. abbreviation
- Ld. abbreviation
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Land?
- /lant/
- /lɑnt/
- [lant]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Land
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Land in German?
Land appears 295 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).