Sentence examples for meaning land from inspiring English sources

Uttarakhand's name is derived from the Sanskrit words Uttara meaning North, and khaṇḍ meaning Land, simply means Northern Land.

The older canals are mainly in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab (doab meaning "land between two rivers").

In front of me is the bar's signature cocktail: Terra da Garoa, meaning "land of drizzle".

Saginaw, an Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indian word meaning "land of the Sauks," developed around a fur-trading post (established 1816).

It has since decided to call itself the Mizuho no Kuni – meaning "land of rice" – primary school.

Beginning in the 1920s, Serbia was an integral part of Yugoslavia (meaning "Land of the South Slavs"), which included the modern countries of Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro.

In the 1950s, Vinoba Bhave set up a huge movement called Bhoodan (meaning land-gift) in India, to which ordinary landowners donated 5m acres – an area the size of Wales – to be put back into common ownership so that peasants could live and farm on it.

Often enough, their search for meaning lands them in the care of a therapist who uses hypnotism to elicit more details of their dreamlike experiences.

In some cases, these single-seat concepts use less congested airports, meaning landing closer to where you are going and avoiding the delays the plague major airports.

"What we're doing is preserving the rural character, meaning lands stay as forested lands, preserving the forest-based economy of logging, trucking, value-added manufacturing, like flooring, furniture and molding," Selzer said.

The Japanese word daimyo is compounded from dai ("large") and myō (for myōden, or "name-land," meaning "private land").