📖 L — The English dictionary · page 4

lamentation — Everyday, meaning 1: Loud crying and sad words because of grief or loss.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) Lamentations is a book of the Bible: sad poems about the fall of Jerusalem.↗ Example: There was weeping and lamentation in the city.↗ · Toad flung himself down in bitter lamentation.↗ · The lamentations of the mourners filled the church.↗ · The Book of Lamentations is in the Old Testament.↗ · Her lamentations over the broken vase went on all day.↗ · The poem is a lamentation for a lost friend.↗ · At this story the parents redoubled their lamentations.↗ · Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, (Prophets EZK.19.1, JPS 1917)↗ · 'And thou, son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre, (Prophets EZK.27.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.↗ (Writings PSA.78.64, JPS 1917)↗

lamp — Everyday, meaning 1: A lamp is a thing that gives light, often standing on a table, a desk or along a street.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Old lamps burned oil or gas to make light; most lamps today use electricity.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A heat lamp gives warmth.↗ Example: There are 9 lamps along the street.↗ · Lamps stand every 20 m.↗ · A lamp costs 15 dollars.↗ · Each room has 2 lamps.↗ · I read in bed by the light of my lamp.↗ · The lamp lights up when the circuit is closed.↗ · Aladdin rubbed the lamp and a genie appeared.↗ · The street lamps come on when it gets dark.↗ · And he lighted the lamps before the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.↗ (Torah EXO.40.25, JPS 1917)↗ · He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.↗ (Torah LEV.24.4, JPS 1917)↗ · the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the light; (Torah EXO.35.14, JPS 1917)↗ · For Thou art my lamp, O LORD; and the LORD doth lighten my darkness.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.29, JPS 1917)↗ · For Thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God doth lighten my darkness.↗ (Writings PSA.18.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.↗ (Writings PSA.119.105, JPS 1917)↗

lamplight — Everyday, meaning 1: Lamplight is the soft light given out by a lamp in a room.↗ Example: She read the book by lamplight.↗ · The room glowed in lamplight.↗ · We ate dinner in lamplight.↗

lamppost — Everyday, meaning 1: A lamppost is a tall post in a street or park with a light at the top that comes on when it gets dark.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Lampposts are also used to hold signs, posters and bins.↗ Example: We met under the lamppost at the corner of our street.↗ · A poster about a lost cat was taped to the lamppost.↗ · The lampposts come on when it gets dark.↗ · In the book, Lucy finds a lamppost glowing in the snowy wood.↗ · Dad bumped into a lamppost while looking at his phone.↗ · The council is replacing old lampposts with bright LED ones.↗ · There are twelve lampposts along the path, one every 20 metres.↗ · "It's much more like the lampposts on the Thames Embankment," said George, who had noticed a curly thing like a tail that went twisting up the North Pole.↗

lampshade — Everyday, meaning 1: A lampshade is a cover that goes over a light bulb on a lamp to soften the light and make it look nicer.↗ Example: The lampshade made the light soft and warm.↗ · We made a paper lampshade in design and technology.↗ · Dust the lampshade carefully.↗ · The lampshade was made of translucent fabric that let some light through.↗ · My bedroom lampshade is shaped like a moon.↗ · Make sure the lampshade does not touch the hot bulb.↗

lan — Everyday, meaning 1: LAN stands for local area network: computers connected together in one building, like a school or house.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Lan» is a name or part of a name (a name), and a fragment of longer words like «land» or «plan».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Mandarin, pinyin) «lán» means blue (蓝).↗ It sounds like «lahn» and is not an English word.↗ Example: Our school computers are on a LAN.↗ · The LAN cable plugs into the back of the computer.↗ · They had a LAN party to play games together.↗ · In Mandarin, «lán» means blue.↗ · «Lan» is the start of «lane» and «land».↗ · The internet is bigger than a LAN — it is a network of networks.↗

lancaster — Everyday, meaning 1: (a name, a place) Lancaster is a city in north-west England, the county town of Lancashire.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) The House of Lancaster was a royal family of England, whose sign was the red rose; it fought the House of York in the Wars of the Roses.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) The Lancaster was a famous British bomber plane of the Second World War.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (a name) A surname.↗ Example: Lancaster is a city in Lancashire.↗ · The red rose was the badge of the House of Lancaster.↗ · Henry VII united Lancaster and York.↗ · We visited Lancaster Castle on our trip.↗ · The Lancaster bomber had four engines.↗ · Mrs Lancaster is our neighbour.↗ · Some cried, "Thou must go to Lancaster first."↗

lance — Everyday, meaning 1: A lance is a long spear with a pointed tip, carried by knights on horseback in battles and jousts.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb, medicine) To lance a boil or abscess is for a doctor to cut it open with a sharp tool so the pus can come out.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Lance is also a boy's name.↗ Example: The knight lowered his lance and charged.↗ · The lance broke against the shield in the joust.↗ · The doctor lanced the boil on his neck.↗ · Knights practised with lances at a target.↗ · A lance is much longer than a sword.↗ · His uncle is a lance corporal in the army.↗ · Lance is the new boy in our class.↗ (a name)↗ · And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with swords and lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.↗ (Prophets 1KI.18.28, JPS 1917)↗

lancers — Everyday, meaning 1: Lancers are soldiers on horses who fight with long spears called lances.↗ Example: The king sent five hundred lancers.↗ · The lancers rode out at dawn.↗ · Ten lancers guarded the gate.↗

land — Everyday, meaning 1: Land is the ground, the part of the Earth that is not water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Land is an area of ground that someone owns or uses, like a farm.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A land is a country or place: a faraway land.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To land is to come down to the ground or water after flying or falling, like a plane or a bird.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To land a boat is to bring it to the shore.↗ Example: The farmer has 40 acres of land.↗ · He plants corn on half the land.↗ · The plane landed after 3 hours.↗ · The coin landed on tails 6 times.↗ · Frogs live both on land and in water.↗ · The bird landed on the windowsill.↗ · Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a king.↗ · After a week at sea, the sailors saw land.↗ · The cat always lands on its feet.↗ · What a blessed land that must be!↗ · And the Canaanite was then in the land.↗ (Torah GEN.12.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the famine was sore in the land.↗ (Torah GEN.43.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.↗ (Torah NUM.21.31, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus shall they cleanse the land.↗ (Prophets EZK.39.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And the land had rest from war.↗ (Prophets JOS.11.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And the land had rest forty years.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.11, JPS 1917)↗

lander — Everyday, meaning 1: A lander is a spacecraft built to land on the surface of a planet, moon, comet or asteroid.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rare) A lander is someone who lands, or a person from a particular land (as in «Highlander»).↗ Example: The lander touched down safely on the Moon.↗ · A lander stays where it lands, but a rover can drive around.↗ · The Philae lander bounced on the comet.↗ · The Mars lander measured quakes inside the planet.↗ · We built a paper lander to protect an egg when dropped.↗ · The Apollo lunar lander carried two astronauts to the surface.↗

landfill — Everyday, meaning 1: A landfill is a large hole or site in the ground where rubbish is buried.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Landfill is the rubbish that is buried in such places.↗ Example: Most of our rubbish ends up in a landfill.↗ · Recycling keeps plastic out of landfill.↗ · The council opened a new landfill site outside town.↗ · Rotting food in landfill gives off methane gas.↗ · Plastic bags can take hundreds of years to break down in a landfill.↗ · Our school cut its landfill waste from 50 bags to 20 bags a week, saving 30.↗ · Old phones should be recycled, not sent to landfill.↗

landing — Everyday, meaning 1: A landing is when an aircraft, spacecraft or bird comes down to the ground or water.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A landing is the flat area at the top of stairs or between two flights of stairs.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A landing is a place where boats stop to load and unload.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (verb form) Landing means coming down to the ground, or arriving, as in «landing on the Moon».↗ Example: The plane made a smooth landing.↗ · Astronauts first walked on the Moon after a Moon landing.↗ · I left my shoes on the landing.↗ · The crash landing scared the passengers.↗ · The duck made a splashy landing on the pond.↗ · Boats unload at the landing by the river.↗ · On a landing, he noticed an open door, beyond which was a faintly lighted hall.↗

landlady — Everyday, meaning 1: A landlady is a woman who owns or runs an inn, pub or lodging house and rents rooms to people.↗ Example: The landlady brought us soup.↗ · Our landlady was very kind.↗ · The landlady asked too many questions.↗

landline — Everyday, meaning 1: A landline is a telephone connected by a wire to the phone network, usually fixed in a house or office, not a mobile phone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It also means the phone number of that fixed phone.↗ Example: Grandma still has a landline in her hall.↗ · Call me on the landline if my mobile is off.↗ · We don't have a landline any more.↗ · Learn your home landline number in case of an emergency.↗ · The landline rang during dinner.↗ · A landline works even when the mobile signal is weak.↗ · Our school office has several landlines.↗ · The landline number starts with the area code.↗

landlocked — Everyday, meaning 1: Of a country or place: surrounded by land on all sides, with no coast on the sea.↗ Example: Switzerland is a landlocked country.↗ · Bolivia is landlocked, but it still has a navy on a big lake!↗ · Landlocked countries depend on neighbours to reach the sea.↗ · Look at the map: which African countries are landlocked?↗ · Liechtenstein is surrounded by two landlocked countries.↗ · The Caspian Sea is a landlocked sea.↗

landlord — Everyday, meaning 1: A landlord is a person or company that owns a house, flat or room and rents it to people for money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (UK, Ireland) A landlord is the man who runs a pub.↗ Example: We pay our rent to the landlord every month.↗ · The landlord came to fix the broken boiler.↗ · If the rent is £800 a month, the landlord gets £9600 a year.↗ · The pub landlord rang the bell for last orders.↗ (UK)↗ · Our landlord said we could keep a cat.↗ · The landlord owns three flats on our street.↗ · The landlord agreed to the bargain.↗

landmark — Everyday, meaning 1: A landmark is a building or place that is easy to see and recognise, which helps you know where you are.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A landmark is a famous building or place, like the Statue of Liberty or the Sydney Opera House.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A landmark is an important event or change, like a landmark decision.↗ Example: The Eiffel Tower is a famous landmark.↗ · Use landmarks to give directions: turn left at the post office.↗ · Uluru is a landmark sacred to Aboriginal people.↗ · The tall clock tower is a landmark in our town.↗ · If you get lost, stand near a big landmark and wait.↗ · We drew a map with landmarks on it.↗ · The first Moon landing was a landmark in history.↗ · Big Ben is one of London's best-known landmarks.↗ · Its summit towered above all the other trees, and could be seen far out at sea, so that it served as a landmark to the sailors.↗ · Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark.↗ (Torah DEU.27.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.↗ (Torah DEU.19.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.↗ (Writings PRO.22.28, JPS 1917)↗ · There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.↗ (Writings JOB.24.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless; (Writings PRO.23.10, JPS 1917)↗

landmass — Everyday, meaning 1: A landmass is a very large, continuous area of land, such as a continent or a big island.↗ Example: Africa is a huge landmass.↗ · Pangaea was one giant landmass millions of years ago.↗ · Greenland is the biggest island landmass that is not a continent.↗ · The world's landmasses cover about 29 per cent of the Earth's surface.↗ · The map showed the landmasses in green and the oceans in blue.↗ · Europe and Asia form one landmass called Eurasia.↗

landowner — Everyday, meaning 1: A landowner is a person or group that owns land, especially a large area such as a farm, an estate or fields.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law, money) A landowner has the right to decide how the land is used, and may rent it to others.↗ Example: The landowner let us camp in his field for the night.↗ · In the Middle Ages most farmers rented their fields from a landowner.↗ · You need the landowner's permission to fish in this river.↗ · The landowner planted hundreds of trees on her hill.↗ · In the story, a greedy landowner threw the family off the farm.↗ · Australia's biggest landowners run huge cattle stations.↗ · The council talked with three landowners about building the new school.↗