- 1[countable] the area at the top of a set of stairs where you arrive before you go into an upstairs room or move onto another set of stairs Go up to the first-floor landing and it’s the door on the right. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivefirst-floor, second-floor, etc., … prepositionoff the landing, on the landing See full entry
- 2[countable, uncountable] an act of bringing an aircraft or a spacecraft down to the ground after a journey a perfect/smooth/safe landing the first Apollo moon landing The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing. a landing site opposite take-off see also crash landing Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivebumpy, hard, rough, … verb + landingmake landing + nounarea, site, strip, … See full entry See related entries: Plane travel, Space travel
- 3[countable] an act of bringing soldiers to land in an area that is controlled by the enemy
- 4(British English also landing stage) [countable] a flat wooden platform on the water where boats let people get on and off, and load and unload goods synonym jetty Extra examples The room opens off the landing. There’s a phone on the landing outside your room. the first successful lunar landing The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing. a perfectly/smooth/safe landing the first Apollo moon landing
landing
nounBrE BrE//ˈlændɪŋ//; NAmE NAmE//ˈlændɪŋ//
Plane travel, Space travelCheck pronunciation: landing
