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soft land

soft land is the alternative form of soft-land.

Meaning of soft-land

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it survives the landing mostly or entirely intact and is usable or able to operate, at least briefly, following touchdown.
    • The Spirit and Opportunity rovers were soft-landed on Mars in 2004.

Forms of soft land

third-person singular presentsoft lands
present participlesoft landing
past participlesoft landed
pastsoft landed

Questions about soft land

What is soft land the alternative form of?
Soft land is the alternative form of soft-land.

Words near soft land in the dictionary

  1. soft jade
  2. soft jades
  3. soft key
  4. soft keys
  5. soft kill
  6. soft land
  7. soft landed
  8. soft landing
  9. soft landings
  10. soft lands
  11. soft launch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soft land (page history and authors); soft-land (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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