dry land

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Noun

dry land - the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground"

ground, solid ground, terra firma, earth, land

object, physical object - a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects"

archipelago - a group of many islands in a large body of water

beachfront - a strip of land running along a beach

cape, ness - a strip of land projecting into a body of water

coastal plain - a plain adjacent to a coast

earth, globe, world - the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world"

floor - the ground on which people and animals move about; "the fire spared the forest floor"

foreland - land forming the forward margin of something

timberland, woodland, forest, timber - land that is covered with trees and shrubs

island - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water

isthmus - a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas

land mass, landmass - a large continuous extent of land

mainland - the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula

neck - a narrow elongated projecting strip of land

oxbow - the land inside an oxbow bend in a river

peninsula - a large mass of land projecting into a body of water

champaign, plain, field - extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"

slash - an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

wonderland - a place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder

Translations

اليابِسَه

souše

landlandjord

fast land

súš

dry land

n → fester Boden; I’ll be glad to be on dry land again → ich bin froh, wenn ich wieder festen Boden unter den Füßen habe

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

dry

(drai) adjective

1. having little, or no, moisture, sap, rain etc. The ground is very dry; The leaves are dry and withered; I need to find dry socks for the children.

2. uninteresting and not lively. a very dry book.

3. (of humour or manner) quiet, restrained. a dry wit.

4. (of wine) not sweet.

verb – past tense, past participle dried –

to (cause to) become dry. I prefer drying dishes to washing them; The clothes dried quickly in the sun.

dried adjective

(of food) having had moisture removed for the purpose of preservation. dried flowers; dried fruit.

ˈdrier, ˈdryer noun

a machine etc that dries. a spin-drier; a hair-dryer.

ˈdrily, ˈdryly adverb

in a quiet, restrained (and humorous) manner. He commented drily on the untidiness of the room.

ˈdryness noun

ˌdry-ˈclean verb

to clean (clothes etc) with chemicals, not with water.

dry land

the land as opposed to the sea etc.

dry off

to make or become completely dry. She climbed out of the swimming-pool and dried off in the sun.

dry up

1. to lose water; to cease running etc completely. All the rivers dried up in the heat.

2. to become used up. Supplies of bandages have dried up.

3. to make dry. The sun dried up the puddles in the road.

4. (of a speaker) to forget what he is going to say. He dried up in the middle of his speech.

References in classic literature ?

"Why don't you come out on dry land?" said the Spectator.

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Little mishaps, that you would hardly notice on dry land, drive you nearly frantic with rage, when they occur on the water.

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He had a strange notion of the dry land, picked up from sailor's stories: that it was a place where lads were put to some kind of slavery called a trade, and where apprentices were continually lashed and clapped into foul prisons.

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"I am a Hebrew," he cries --and then --"I fear the Lord the God of Heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land!" Fear him, O Jonah?

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The horse obeyed, and although their progress was slow they finally reached the opposite river bank at a place where it was low enough to enable the creature to scramble upon dry land.

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I found each wave, instead of the big, smooth glossy mountain it looks from shore or from a vessel's deck, was for all the world like any range of hills on dry land, full of peaks and smooth places and valleys.

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This is the place, if the report of the inhabitants deserves any credit, where the Israelites miraculously passed through the Red Sea on dry land; and there is some reason for imagining the tradition not ill grounded, for the sea is here only three leagues in breadth.

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Robin laid hold and was hauled to dry land for all the world like a fish, except that the fish would never have come forth so wet and dripping.

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I saw that they had sprung from a volcanic soil which had been raised above the level of the sea, and that subsequently this dry land, with its upright trees, had been let down into the depths of the ocean.

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Mary felt as if the drive would never come to an end and that the wide, bleak moor was a wide expanse of black ocean through which she was passing on a strip of dry land.

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"We seem to be drifting toward it, so that before noon we ought to find ourselves upon dry land again."

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I don't see why people can't be contented on dry land."

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