landing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: land=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

landing, a. 

 Of, pertaining to, or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.  [1913 Webster]

Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel. -- Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked. -- Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage. -- Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter.

landing, n. 

•  A going or bringing on shore.  [1913 Webster]
•  A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [PJC]

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

OXFORD DICTIONARY

landing, n.
1 a the act or process of coming to land. b an instance of this. c (also landing-place) a place where ships etc. land.
2 a a platform between two flights of stairs, or at the top or bottom of a flight. b a passage leading to upstairs rooms.

Idiom

landing-craft any of several types of craft esp. designed for putting troops and equipment ashore. landing-gear the undercarriage of an aircraft. landing-net a net for landing a large fish which has been hooked. landing-stage a platform, often floating, on which goods and passengers are disembarked. landing-strip an airstrip.

THESAURUS

landing

aerodrome, air base, airdrome, airfield, airport, anchorage, anchorage ground, approach, arrival, back stairs, balcony, basin, berth, blind landing, breakwater, bulkhead, catafalque, coming in, companion, companionway, dais, debarkation, deplaning, disembarkation, disembarkment, dock, dockage, docking, dockyard, dropping anchor, dry dock, embankment, emplacement, escalier, estrade, field, fire escape, flight of steps, floor, gallery, going ashore, groin, harbor, harborage, haven, heliport, hustings, incline, island, jetty, jutty, landfall, landing field, landing pad, landing place, landing stage, launching pad, marina, mole, mooring, moorings, perron, pier, platform, podium, port, protected anchorage, pulpit, quay, ramp, road, roads, roadstead, rostrum, seaport, seawall, shipyard, slip, soapbox, spiral staircase, splashdown, stack up, stage, staircase, stairs, stairway, step terrace, stepping-stones, steps, stile, stump, terrace, touchdown, treads and risers, tribunal, tribune, tying up, wharf

ROGET THESAURUS

landing

Arrival

N arrival, advent, landing, debarkation, disembarkation, reception, welcome, vin d'honneur, home, goal, goalpost, landing place, landing stage, bunder, resting place, destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport, terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal, journey's end, anchorage, return, remigration, meeting, rencounter, encounter, completion, recursion, arriving, homeward bound, here, hither, Int, welcome!, hail!, all Hail!, good-day, good morrow!, any port in a storm.