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1 [wat boven water uitsteekt] land2 [bouwland] land3 [platteland] country(side)4 [staat] country5 [vaderland] country6 [streek] land♦voorbeelden:land betreden • set foot ashoreaan land komen • land, come ashoreaan land gaan • go ashorehij kon nog naar het land zwemmen • he was still able to swim to the shoregoederen over land vervoeren • transport goods overlandte land en ter zee • on land and sealand (in zicht)! • land ho!land in zicht krijgen • come in sight of land, sight land3 een kind van het land • a country boy/girlop het land wonen • live in the countryin ons land • in this countryover het hele land • throughout the country〈 spreekwoord〉 in het land der blinden is eenoog koning • in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinghet land dienen/verdedigen • serve/defend one's countrywaren uit/van eigen land • domestic goodshier te lande • hereabouts, in these partsergens het land over hebben • be annoyed about something -
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