Landfall

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or an instance of sighting or reaching land after a voyage or flight.
  • n. The land sighted or reached after a voyage or flight.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Arrival at the shore by ship.
  • n. The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
  • n. Sighting or making land when at sea.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A land-slide or land-slip.
  • n. Nautical, an approach or a coming to land, in the course or at the end of a sea-voyage; also, land so approached or reached.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)
  • n. the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sighting    seashore    seacoast    coast   
    Cross Reference
    to make a good landfall   
    Form
    make landfall   
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