(informal, idiomatic) The United States.

The United States of America.

(poetic, dated) The Orient; the East.

(ecology) The decline in the overall quality of soil, water or vegetation condition commonly caused by human activities.

The safe arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the moon

plural of land rush

Alternative spelling of landrush

(poetic) China.

(Judaism, Christianity) The area historically known as Judea, which was promised to the Israelites by God according to oral tradition recorded in the Book of Genesis.

(idiomatic, sometimes lower case) Any place to which one eagerly seeks to go and which one expects to greatly improve one's situation.