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/lˈændɪŋ pleɪs/ Listen

noun

Landing n.

A going or bringing on shore.

A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.

(Arch.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

(Aeronautics) The act or process of bringing an aircraft to land after having been in the air; as, the pilot made a perfect three-point landing. Contrasted with take-off.

Landing place. me as Landing, n., 2 and 3.

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"Landing place" Quotes from Famous Books

... curtsied to the ground, kissed the Queen's hand, and retired with Heinrich and Pyto through the passages to the landing place. ...

— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry

... of clothing, tied up in a bundle ready for emergencies. Into the water again they go for the other side! But, alas! another policeman is waiting on the other side at the place where they expected to land, so they must needs swim till another landing place offers security. But even here they find that escape is hopeless, for ...

— London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes

... he made out that the shaft went straight down only a few feet and then slanted away in a great chute like the floor down which he had already come, only so much steeper that he knew had he fallen there would have been no return possible for him. To what eventual landing place would he have plunged? For a moment or so his eyes strained in vain into the gloom. Slowly faint and then growing detail rewarded him. It was but a small section offered him because of the angling of the tunnel. But before a watch could have ticked ten ...

— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory

... day and a brilliant scene. Lucia's distinguished family had arrived in full force and glittering pageant. Not only the violet but the crimson clergy were represented. The street populace of Como were lined up from the landing place of our boats to the cathedral as at the arrival of royalty. The street urchins ran before us, and there was even cheering as though this event signified an additional joy on earth. The church was fragrant with masses of roses and radiant with - hundreds of candles, and returning ...

— The Bride of Dreams • Frederik van Eeden

... the spot where they had obtained a footing, the only approach to Fort Ingles was by a precipitous path which could only be passed in single file. The fort itself was only accessible by a ladder that had been drawn up, as soon as the party driven back from the landing place had returned. An attack seemed well-nigh hopeless; but the Chilians' confidence in their leader was unbounded, and none doubted but that success would attend their efforts. It was already late in ...

— With Cochrane the Dauntless • George Alfred Henty

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