landing
/ˈlandɪŋ
/noun
1An instance of coming or bringing something to land, either from the air or from water: we made a perfect landing at the airstrip [mass noun]: the landing of men on the moon...
- My sigh of relief when the pilot executed a perfect landing and brought the vessel to a safe stop was as deep as anyone's I reckon.
- Tailwind landings have you flying down final at an excess groundspeed, but at a given angle of descent.
- Over the next several years, I remember it experienced two wheels-up landings from hard landing practice with students.
Synonyms
alighting, arrival, coming in, deplaning;
disembarkation, docking;
re-entry, touchdown, splashdown
informal greaser
1.1An act of unloading troops in enemy territory as part of a military operation: the D-Day landings...
- The island's white sand beaches are bordered by razor wire and concrete structures that are supposed to prevent enemy troop landings.
- The total number of Allied troops involved in the landings was 65,000, a little more than half the strength of the French forces in North Africa.
- This year marked the 90th anniversary of the landing of Anzac troops in Gallipoli.
1.2 (also landing place) A place where people and goods can be landed from a boat: the ferry landing...
- They made their way down the pier to the boat landings.
- Her crew also took part in rapid-roping from her Sea King helicopter to ward off ‘suspicious’ boats threatening the landings.
- The ABC bridge instead recalls the decks of ferry landings on the harbour.
Synonyms
harbour, berth, dock, jetty, landing stage, landing place, pier, quay, wharf, slipway, marina, anchorage, haven, platform
2A level area at the top of a staircase or between one flight of stairs and another: he ran across the landing to his bedroom...
- The man still continued down another flight of stairs from the landing of the second floor.
- He stepped across the threshold of the tunnel and onto a landing of a flight stairs.
- Stairs rise from the landing to the attic room, which is floored and panelled in wood and features two velux windows and a good amount of eaves storage.
