lond

lond n pl

1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of land

From Old English land, from Proto-Germanic *landą.

• londe, lande, land, loand, lænde, laund

• IPA^(key): /lɔːnd/, /land/, /lɔnd/, /laːnd/

lond (plural londes)

1. An independent nation, country or realm.
2. A tribe, folk or race; a ethnicity
3. A land; territory or locality

   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Book II”, in Troilus and Criseyde, line 22-28:

     Ȝe knowe ek that in fourme of ſpeche is chaunge / With-inne a thousand ȝeer, and wordes tho /That hadden pris now wonder nyce and ſtraunge /Us thenketh hem, and ȝet thei ſpake hem so / And ſpedde as wel in loue as men now do / Ek forto wynnen loue in ſondry ages / In ſondry londes, ſondry ben vſages […]

     You also know that the form of language is in flux; / within a thousand years, words / that had currency; really weird and bizarre / they seem to us now, but they still spoke them / and accomplished as much in love as men do now. / As for winning love across ages and / across nations, there are lots of usages […]

4. A subdivision or province of a nation.
5. A property; a plot of land.
6. Agricultural land; land that is suitable for growing crops.
7. Planet Earth; the world.
8. The earth, ground, or soil (also as one of the medieval elements)

• Engelond
• Irlond
• Iseland
• landbok
• landlorde
• londen
• londyng
• mayne londe
• Nomanneslond
• Northumberlond

• English: land
• Scots: laund, land
• Yola: lhoan, lone

• “lōnd (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-22.

From londe (noun).

lond

1. Alternative form of londen