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🌱 An area of ground 🖥️ Digital property
piece of land

piece of land

1 6.7
A digital area in an online world that someone can buy or own
  • noun
  • Jargon
translation icon : parcela virtual
  • He invested in a piece of land within the metaverse to create a digital marketplace.

Examples

  • So they stamped out coins and purchased a piece of land.

    Blog text (24)

  • You "owned" a piece of land if you could equip an army to force everyone to either stay off of it or pay you rent/taxes.

    Blog text (33)

  • In the online game, players can buy a piece of land to build their virtual homes.

  • Each user can trade their piece of land for in-game currency or other digital assets.

Synonyms

real estate
vspiece of land
  • Texting
3 4.6

Virtual land in online worlds that people buy to build on

is a single purchasable digital parcel representing ownership or usage rights
landholding
vspiece of land
  • Jargon
7.5

Virtual plots in online worlds that people buy and own

is the unit itself that can be bought or traded, not the ownership status

How Big

region
977 2.0
landholding
  • Jargon
7.5
piece of land
  • Jargon
1 6.7

Surface Forms

piece of land singular
pieces of land plural

Morphology

piece + of + land

The sense 'a portion of land' follows directly from combining 'piece' (a portion) with 'land' (area/territory), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can derive the basic meaning. Its use for virtual/metaverse parcels is a straightforward, context-driven extension of the literal sense rather than an idiomatic shift, making the expression predictable and readily interpretable.

Etymology

The meaning of piece of land for online spaces comes from treating a virtual world like the real one. People call a small area a piece of land, so it means 'a digital plot' you can buy, sell, or use.