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land lover

land lover noun: eggcorn of landlubber.

Noun

land lover (plural land lovers)

  1. Eggcorn of landlubber.
    • For land lovers, the Pirates World and Treasure Museum features exhibits on the islands’ history and their pirates past.1989 December 10, Stanley Carr, “Winter in the Sun: Caribbean Choices, Grand and Budget”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...
    • A crowd of Boy Scouts, other children and their parents roamed around the sea base grounds Saturday, checking out everything the waterfront facility has to offer, on and off the water. The land lovers took part in team building games on the grass and spun a wheel for prizes.2006 April 23, Lauren Vane, “Pirates sing in boating season”, in Daily Pilot, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2025
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see land, lover.
    • “Immense pressure and frigid temperatures, while insurmountable obstacles to land lovers like humans, allow some animals to have very slow metabolisms and the ability to reach gargantuan proportions,” the Schmidt Ocean Institute explained in a post on Facebook.2025 March 20, Vishwam Sankaran, “Giant deep-sea spider spotted crawling on ocean floor near Antarctica”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Examples of land lover in a sentence

  • Making sure there are no sharks in the water?: The land lover spent a lot of time kicking water around.2014 July 21, Heidi Parker, “What will Justin Bieber think? Selena Gomez looks stunning in white bathing suit as she splashes around with...
  • They are billed as an ideal place for “messing around in boats”, but the Norfolk Broads have become the focus of an increasingly bitter and divisive battle between boat dwellers and land lovers.2016 March 12, David Connett, “Norfolk Broads 'gentrification' row becoming increasingly bitter and divisive”, in The Independent, London...
  • You’re not gonna trick the land lover into peeing on my own foot.”2021 May 14, Brendan Marks, CJ Moore, quoting Marc Blucas, “The never-before-told tales of Tim Duncan’s Wake Forest career, from ‘footnote’...

Forms of land lover

pluralland lovers
alternative formland-lover
alternative formlandlover

Questions about land lover

What does land lover mean?
Land lover means eggcorn of landlubber.
How do you use land lover in a sentence?
Making sure there are no sharks in the water?: The land lover spent a lot of time kicking water around.
What part of speech is land lover?
Land lover is a noun.
What is the plural of land lover?
The plural of land lover is land lovers.

Words near land lover in the dictionary

  1. land legs
  2. land line
  3. land lines
  4. land lobster
  5. land lobsters
  6. land lover
  7. land lovers
  8. land mark
  9. land marks
  10. land mass
  11. land masses

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