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# landing

noun (a landing, landings); verb form (landing — present participle of land)

«landing» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A landing is when an aircraft, spacecraft or bird comes down to the ground or water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#m1)
2. A landing is the flat area at the top of stairs or between two flights of stairs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#m2)
3. A landing is a place where boats stop to load and unload. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#m3)
4. (verb form) Landing means coming down to the ground, or arriving, as in «landing on the Moon». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#m4)

### In the lessons

In science and history: the first Moon landing, plane landings; in everyday homes, the landing upstairs; in stories, crash landings and safe landings; phrases: crash landing, Moon landing, landing gear, on the landing.

### Examples

- The plane made a smooth landing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x1)
- Astronauts first walked on the Moon after a Moon landing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x2)
- I left my shoes on the landing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x3)
- The crash landing scared the passengers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x4)
- The duck made a splashy landing on the pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x5)
- Boats unload at the landing by the river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x6)
- On a landing, he noticed an open door, beyond which was a faintly lighted hall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/#x7)

### Note

Countable. In homes, the landing is upstairs, not the hall at the bottom.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «landing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landing/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«landing» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/landing.html) on Mova free.