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land upon

land upon is the alternative form of land on.

Meaning of land on

Verb

land on (third-person singular simple present lands on, present participle landing on, simple past and past participle landed on)

  1. (literally) To land atop of; to fall on the surface of.
    • In 1969, Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon.
  2. (idiomatic) To reach a common conclusion or agreement, usually following a small period of disagreement.
    • I wanted pepperoni pizza, but my friend was a vegetarian, so we landed on having cheese pizza.

Forms of land upon

third-person singular presentlands upon
present participlelanding upon
past participlelanded upon
pastlanded upon

Questions about land upon

What is land upon the alternative form of?
Land upon is the alternative form of land on.

Words near land upon in the dictionary

  1. land train
  2. land trains
  3. land under
  4. land up
  5. land up over
  6. land upon
  7. land use
  8. land uses
  9. Land van Cuijk
  10. land whale
  11. land whales

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Adapted from Wiktionary: land upon (page history and authors); land on (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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