landlocked

«landlocked» in Mova's school dictionary: Of a country or place: surrounded by land on all sides… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (landlocked)

meaning for a pupil

Of a country or place: surrounded by land on all sides, with no coast on the sea. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons landlocked countries include Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Nepal, Bolivia, Uganda and Mongolia. Being landlocked can make trade harder, because goods must pass through other countries to reach ports. Phrases: «a landlocked country».

examples

• Switzerland is a landlocked country. tree →
• Bolivia is landlocked, but it still has a navy on a big lake! tree →
• Landlocked countries depend on neighbours to reach the sea. tree →
• Look at the map: which African countries are landlocked? tree →
• Liechtenstein is surrounded by two landlocked countries. tree →
• The Caspian Sea is a landlocked sea. tree →

note

One word. A country with a coast even on a lake is still landlocked if it has no sea.

In the corpora

• Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein are the only two doubly landlocked countries, and Samarkand and Bukhara, great Silk Road cities, are in Uzbekistan.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «landlocked» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.