lander

See also: Lander, länder, Landër, and Länder

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [ˈlændə]
  • (General American) IPA(key): [ˈlændɚ]
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Hyphenation: land‧er
  • Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From land (verb) +‎ -er.

Noun

lander (plural landers)

  1. One who lands, or who lands something.
    • 1997, Northern Scotland, volumes 17-18, page 94:
      The Faroese have been important landers of fish at Aberdeen for decades.
  2. A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
  3. (mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
  4. (slang) An illegal immigrant.
  5. (Internet) Synonym of landing page.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From land (noun) +‎ -er. Compare Old English landwaru (the people of a country).

Noun

lander (plural landers)

  1. (in combination) A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
    • 2016, Mail Online:
      La La Lander: Golden Globe nominee Emma Stone donned a grey ruffled pencil skirt with a white sheer blouse for the party.

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

lander

  1. present of lande

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lander

  1. present of lande

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlandɛr/
  • Rhymes: -andɛr

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English launder.

Alternative forms

Noun

lander m (plural landeri or landerau or landerydd, not mutable)

  1. (North Wales) gutter (on a roof), eavestrough
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Noun

lander

  1. soft mutation of glander (cleanliness)

Mutation

Mutated forms of glander
radical soft nasal aspirate
glander lander nglander unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “gutter”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary[1], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
  • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “lander”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “lander”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies