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land·fall

(lănd′fôl′)

1. The act or an instance of sighting or reaching land after a voyage or flight.

2. The land sighted or reached after a voyage or flight.

3. The reaching of land by an oceanic storm or a part, especially the eye, of a storm.

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landfall

(ˈlændˌfɔːl)

1. (Nautical Terms) the act of sighting or nearing land, esp from the sea

2. the act of sighting or nearing land, esp from the sea

3. (Nautical Terms) the land sighted or neared

4. the land sighted or neared

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land•fall

(ˈlændˌfɔl)

n.

1. an approach to or sighting of land.

2. the land sighted or reached.

3. a landslide.

[1620–30]

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Noun	1.	landfall - the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water) coast, seacoast, sea-coast, seashore - the shore of a sea or ocean
	2.	landfall - the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water) sighting - the act of observing; "several sightings of enemy troops were reported"

Translations

recaladatocar tierra

prima terra avvistata

landfall

[ˈlændfɔːl] N (Naut) → recalada f, aterrada f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

landfall

[ˈlændˌfɔːl] n to make landfall → approdare, toccare terra

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He had watched hour after hour since first New York had risen out of the blue indistinctness of the landfall. With the daylight he experienced an intolerable fatigue.

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