landish

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the land

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Meanings

adjectivelandish (comparative more landish, superlative most landish)

comparative more landish · superlative most landish

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the land

    So it turns out, she was a landish woman.

    2007, Aracelis Girmay, Teeth
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    […] — a ferret, for example, with its fierce eyes plucked from the reefs of coral seas, and its affinity, albeit a landish affinity, with the bears of the polar spaces.

    1953, George Reid Millar, Siesta

    These chapters are chapter 24 — "the Advocate," the chapter that marks the transition from the "landish" part of the novel to its sea part, and the famous chapter 32, "Cetology."

    2003, Eyal Peretz, Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power

    It was already stated that any work of art should consider the haunting peril, that is lurking in a bushy ambush, threatening to metamorphose worthy, touching emotionality (produced by the work of art; poetry in this case) into a landish, kitschy, vulgar sentimentality.

    2009, Steven L. Jacobs, Zev Garber, Maven in Blue Jeans

    “Not a name men would follow,” she said to me once. “A landish name.”

    2012, Sean Wallace, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk

Origin

  1. Old English*lendisċ
  2. Middle Englishlondish
  3. Englishlandish

From Middle English londish, londiss, from Old English *lendisċ (attested in inlendisċ, ūtlendisċ, uplendisċ, etc.), from Proto-Germanic: *landiskaz. Equivalent to land + -ish.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “landish,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landish.

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