lander
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: land‧er
- Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
Noun
lander (plural landers)
- One who lands, or who lands something.
- 1997, Northern Scotland, volumes 17-18, page 94:
- The Faroese have been important landers of fish at Aberdeen for decades.
- A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
- (mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
- (slang) An illegal immigrant.
- (in combination) A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
- 2016, Mail Online:
- La La Lander: Golden Globe nominee Emma Stone donned a grey ruffled pencil skirt with a white sheer blouse for the party.
- (Internet) Synonym of landing page
Translations
space probe
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person at the mouth of a shaft
(slang) illegal immigrant
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Anagrams
- Ladner, darnel, learn'd, reland, Randle, Rednal, learnd, enlard, aldern, Nadler, Lenard, Randel, Larned, larned
Danish
Verb
lander
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lander