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land ahoy

land ahoy interjection: shouted by the ship's watch to inform the crew that land has been spotted.

Interjection

  1. Shouted by the ship's watch to inform the crew that land has been spotted.
    Synonyms:
    land ho

Synonyms of land ahoy

Questions about land ahoy

What does land ahoy mean?
Land ahoy means shouted by the ship's watch to inform the crew that land has been spotted.
What part of speech is land ahoy?
Land ahoy is an interjection.

Words near land ahoy in the dictionary

  1. land acknowledgements
  2. land acknowledgment
  3. land acknowledgments
  4. land agent
  5. land agents
  6. land ahoy
  7. land art
  8. land artist
  9. land artists
  10. land bank
  11. land banking

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