lander

See also: Lander, länder, Landër, and Länder

English

Etymology

land +‎ -er

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈlændə]
(General American) IPA^(key): [ˈlændɚ]
Audio (AU) (file)
Hyphenation: land‧er
Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

Noun

lander (plural landers)

One who lands, or who lands something.
- 1997, Northern Scotland, volumes 17-18, page 94:
  The Faroese have been important landers of fish at Aberdeen for decades.
A spacecraft, particularly a probe, designed to set down on the surface of another celestial body.
(mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
(slang) An illegal immigrant.
(in combination) A person from a specific land. See highlander, Greenlander.
- 2016, Mail Online:
  La La Lander: Golden Globe nominee Emma Stone donned a grey ruffled pencil skirt with a white sheer blouse for the party.
(Internet) Synonym of landing page

Translations

space probe

Chinese:
Mandarin: 著陸器／著陆器 (zhuólùqì)
Finnish: laskeutumisluotain, laskeutuja (fi)
French: atterrisseur (fr) m
German: Lander (de) m
Hindi: लैंडर m (laiṇḍar)
Italian: modulo di atterraggio
Japanese: ランダー (randā), 着陸船 (ちゃくりくせん, ryakurikusen)
Korean: 착륙선 (changnyukseon)
Polish: lądownik (pl) m
Russian: спуска́емый аппара́т (ru) m (spuskájemyj apparát), поса́дочный мо́дуль m (posádočnyj módulʹ)
Swedish: landare (sv) c
Turkish: iniş aracı

person at the mouth of a shaft

(slang) illegal immigrant

Russian: нелега́л (ru) m (nelegál), нелега́лка (ru) f (nelegálka)

Anagrams

Ladner, Larned, Lenard, Nadler, Randel, Randle, aldern, darnel, enlard, larned, learn'd, learnd, reland

Danish

Verb

lander

present of lande

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

lander

present of lande

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