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landfall

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An arrival at the shore by a ship, or sighting of the shore from a ship.
    We made landfall at the most god-forsaken, barren, desolate, and hellish location possible to image; and we were grateful, anything to get off that ship!
  2. noun The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.
  3. noun The first land discovered after a sea voyage.
  4. noun A landslip.

Similar words

land landing earth shore fleet landing wharf call weather shore shipside beachhead

Often followed by

in on at of was and for is press

Word family

landfalls

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