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landfalls

landfalls is the plural of landfall.

Meaning of landfall

Noun

landfall (countable and uncountable, plural landfalls)

  1. An arrival at the shore by a ship, or sighting of the shore from a ship.
    • We made landfall at the most god-forsaken, barren, desolate, and hellish location possible to image; and we were grateful, anything to get off that ship!
  2. The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.
  3. (obsolete) The first land discovered after a sea voyage.
  4. A landslip.

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Questions about landfalls

What is landfalls the plural of?
Landfalls is the plural of landfall.

Words near landfalls in the dictionary

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  2. Landfair
  3. Landfairs
  4. landfall
  5. landfalling
  6. landfalls
  7. landfarming
  8. landfast
  9. landfill
  10. landfill indie
  11. landfill of history

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