landslide
UK/ˈlæn(d).slaɪd/
landslide noun: a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
Noun
landslide (plural landslides)
- A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
- Near-synonym: mudflow
- The landslides Wednesday in Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, followed Typhoon Megi, which brought heavy rains and high winds to China and Taiwan this past week.[…]
The second landslide in Wencheng county killed five people, with one person still missing, an official at the...2016 September 30, “13 dead, 20 still missing in China after typhoon landslides”, in AP News, sourced from Beijing (AP), archived from the original on 25 Sep 2024
- A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
- The candidate won at 61% to 39%, which most people are calling a landslide.
- Synonyms:
- landslide victory
Verb
landslide (third-person singular simple present landslides, present participle landsliding, simple past and past participle landslid)
- To undergo a landslide.
- So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356
landslide meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
landslide in Hindi
- natural disaster
- भूस्खलन bhūskhalan
landslide in Tamil
- natural disaster
- நிலச்சரிவு nilaccarivu
landslide in Urdu
- natural disaster
- ریزشِ زمین reziś-e-zamīn, ہبوطِ ارضی hubūt-e-arzī, تنزلِ زمین tanazzul-e-zamīn
landslide in Bengali
- landslide; avalanche
- ধস dhôś
More languagesFewer languages
- landslide in Malayalam
- മണ്ണിടിച്ചിൽ maṇṇiṭiccil
- landslide in Kannada
- ನೆಲಜಾರಿಕೆ, ನೆಲಸರಿತ, ಭೂಕುಸಿತ
- landslide in Gujarati
- ભૂસ્ખલન bhūskhalan
- landslide in Sinhala
- නායයෑම් nāyayǣm
- landslide in Tagalog
- guho ng lupa, guhunlupa
- landslide in Arabic
- اِنْهِيَار أَرْضِيّ inhiyār ʔarḍiyy
- landslide in Malay
- tanah runtuh
- landslide in Indonesian
- tanah longsor
- landslide in Persian
- رانش زمین râneš-e zamīn
- landslide in Thai
- ดินถล่ม din-tà-lòm, แผ่นดินถล่ม pɛ̀n-din-tà-lòm, ชนะขาดลอย chá-ná-kàat-lɔɔi, นอนมา nɔɔn-maa
- landslide in Vietnamese
- lở đất, sạt lở đất
- landslide in Myanmar
- မြေပြိုခြင်း mre-pruihkrang:
Examples of landslide in a sentence
- (geology) a bulbous protrusion at the front of a lava flow or landslide.
- I think he is going to win by a landslide.
- USA beat Jamaica by a landslide in last night's game.
Synonyms of landslide
Forms of landslide
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | landslides |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | landslides |
| present participle | landsliding |
| past participle | landslid |
| past | landslid |
Origin of landslide
From land + slide.
Words formed from landslide
Phrases with landslide
Questions about landslide
- What does landslide mean?
- Landslide means a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
- What is landslide in Hindi?
- Landslide in Hindi is भूस्खलन (bhūskhalan). See Landslide meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is landslide?
- Landslide can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce landslide?
- Landslide is pronounced /ˈlæn(d).slaɪd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of landslide?
- The plural of landslide is landslides.
Words near landslide in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: landslide (page history and authors); ধস (Bengali) (page history and authors); landslide (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ભૂસ્ખલન (Gujarati) (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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