landfall
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- noun
- /ˈlændfɔl/
- Hurricane Arthur is due to make landfall sometime after 2:00 P.M.
- make landfall
- landfall of a hurricane
- landfall along the coast
Examples
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Between 1950 and 2005, 60 hurricanes, producing 734 tornadoes, made landfall along the Gulf coastline.
Academic text (2011) -
The first 2005 storm to make landfall as a hurricane, Dennis slammed into the Panhandle at 2:25 p.m.
Academic text (2006) -
...where it will make landfall, but by Saturday, somewhere...
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And it looks like it's gonna make landfall probably late tonight or early tomorrow morning.
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Then they do their best to predict where the storm might make landfall and how powerful it might be.
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And we are recording this one day before Hurricane Milton makes landfall on the West Coast of Florida.
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Sometime early Tuesday morning, Hurricane Sandy is expected to make landfall somewhere between Delaware and New York.
Blog text (3) -
A hurricane's strength, its duration, and the location of its landfall are often uncertain until mere hours before it strikes land.
Academic text (2002) -
The troopship made a landfall in New Guinea, and our draft of seamen was set ashore.
Fiction book (1991) -
The hurricane made landfall on the coast, bringing heavy rain and strong winds.
Synonyms
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2.3
Coming down to a surface from the air or sea
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Coming to a place, often at the end of a journey
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3.5
Leaving a boat or ship to step onto land
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To bring people or things from a boat onto land
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Landfall is simply land + fall, literally 'land' and 'to fall', which makes you imagine something 'falling' onto land after a long time at sea or in the air. So, landfall means reaching or arriving at land, for a ship, a person, or a storm.