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landslide

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Noun
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land=slide

CIDE DICTIONARY

landsliden. 
  •  The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The land which slips down.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An election victory in which the winning candidate receives a substantial majority of the votes, usually meaning at least ten per cent more than any opposing candidate.  [PJC]
  •  Any overwhelming victory.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

landslide, n.
1 the sliding down of a mass of land from a mountain, cliff, etc.
2 an overwhelming majority for one side in an election.

THESAURUS

landslide

Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, abundance, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, ascendancy, avalanche, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, championship, coast, conquest, copiousness, count, deluge, easy victory, election returns, embarras de richesses, enough, extravagance, extravagancy, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, foison, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glide, glissade, glissando, grand slam, great abundance, great plenty, gush, inundation, knockout, landslide victory, landslip, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, mastery, maximum, money to burn, moral victory, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, official count, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdose, overflow, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, oversufficiency, oversupply, picnic, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plethora, poll, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, pushover, quantities, recount, redundancy, repleteness, repletion, returns, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, runaway victory, scads, shower, sideslip, skid, slide, slip, slippage, slither, snowslide, snowslip, spate, stream, subdual, subduing, subsidence, substantiality, substantialness, success, superabundance, superflux, teemingness, tidal wave, total victory, triumph, victory, walkaway, walkover, wealth, win, winning, winning streak

ROGET THESAURUS

landslide

Descent

N descent, descension, declension, declination, fall, falling, slump, drop, plunge, plummet, cadence, subsidence, collapse, lapse, downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch, cropper, culbute, titubation, stumble, fate of Icarus, avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide, declivity, dip, hill, rappel, descending, descendent, decurrent, decursive, labent, deciduous, nodding to its fall, downhill, downwards, the bottom fell out.


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