Oh my word Landfall, Landslide

Oh my word Landfall, Landslide
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Landfall is the act of sighting or nearing land, when a cyclone (storm) is predicted to hit a landmass especially in those countries which have a coastline (Japan, India, US, Cuba). Landfall is a noun. Landfall means the first sight of a land after a journey by sea, or the approach to a land after a journey.

Landfall is the act of sighting or nearing land, when a cyclone (storm) is predicted to hit a landmass especially in those countries which have a coastline (Japan, India, US, Cuba). Landfall is a noun. Landfall means the first sight of a land after a journey by sea, or the approach to a land after a journey.


The reaching of land by an oceanic storm or a part, especially the eye, of a storm, a landfall can cause damage to the inland areas. Land! The word land instantly evokes many meanings: any part of the earth's surface not covered by a body of water; the part of the earth's surface occupied by continents and islands, an area of ground with reference to its nature or composition, an area of ground with specific boundaries, rural or farming areas, as contrasted with urban areas.


As the Industrial Revolution took off, more and more people left the land for the unnatural world of the city. There was a steep increase in land prices after the division of the state. Idioms: in the land of the living, the land of ‘nod’, live off on the fat of the land, live off the land, make land –reach the shore, be or go on the land (work as a farmer), the promised land.


Derivatives like landed, landless, landward (adjectives), landing (noun), and also forms compound words like landlord, landlady landscape, landmark, landmine, landslide, landfall, landward , and landmass. After whacking North Carolina, Hurricane Irene made its second landfall in New Jersey Sunday morning.


The seamen made a landfall at twilight. The ship will make its landfall at noon tomorrow.Landslide is a noun, the downward falling or sliding of a mass of soil, detritus, or rock on or from a steep slope (the road was blocked by a landslide); an election in which a particular victorious candidate or party receives an overwhelming mass or majority of votes(they won by a landslide).


Landslide means when a chunk of land slides off; sliding of a mass of earth, rock, etc down from the side of a mountain, cliff, hill. Landslides on the highways obstruct vehicular traffic in either ways. Landslides occurred in Nepal as it was hit by an earthquake in April 2015. The BJP won the 2014 General Elections with a landslide majority.

Kovuuri G Reddy

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