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land-locked

land-locked is the alternative form of landlocked.

Meaning of landlocked

Adjective

landlocked (not comparable)

  1. Of a country, region, etc., surrounded by land (having no borders with the sea).
    • Switzerland is landlocked and obviously will never be a great sea power and must always trade overland.
  2. Living in freshwater, such as landlocked salmon.
  3. (US) Of a property or parcel, surrounded by other property and having no access to a public road.
    • An easement of necessity, said the court, may be provided when property is landlocked and the owner needs access to that property from a public highway.2005, Washington Legislative Reference Bureau, State of Wisconsin Blue Book, 2005-2006, page 610

Phrases with land-locked

Questions about land-locked

What is land-locked the alternative form of?
Land-locked is the alternative form of landlocked.

Words near land-locked in the dictionary

  1. land-jobber
  2. land-jobbers
  3. land-jobbing
  4. land-leech
  5. land-leeches
  6. land-locked
  7. land-locked salmon
  8. land-lover
  9. land-lovers
  10. land-mass
  11. land-masses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: land-locked (page history and authors); landlocked (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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