Landfall

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  • noun. The act or an instance of sighting or reaching land after a voyage or flight.
  • noun. The land sighted or reached after a voyage or flight.
  • noun. The reaching of land by an oceanic storm or a part, especially the eye, of a storm.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A land-slide or land-slip.
  • noun. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
  • noun. Sighting or making land when at sea.
  • noun. the sighting of land in conformity with the navigator's reckoning and expectation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Arrival at the shore by ship.
  • noun. The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)
  • noun. the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)
    • Word Usage
    "Forecasters said the likelihood that Alberto will become a hurricane prior to landfall is decreasing."
    cross-reference
    to make a good landfall  
    Form
    make landfall  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    coast  seacoast  seashore  sighting  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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