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Definition of landing :
1. A going or bringing on shore.
2. A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.
3. of Land
4. Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.
5. The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
Synonyms:
dock, pier, wharf, harbor, landing place
arrival (part of speech: noun)
attainment, approach, reception, ingress, homecoming, achievement, destination, accomplishment, arrival, debarkation, touchdown, fulfillment, entrance, advent, welcome, landfall, return, appearance
acquiring (part of speech: verb)
netting, pocketing, accumulating, procuring, incurring, taking, cornering, claiming, amassing, garnering, obtaining, fetching, harvesting, heaping, scoring, receiving, getting, buying, wrangling, winning, collecting, acquiring, securing, adding, assuming, annexing, retrieving, luring, reaping, catching, capturing, palming, bagging, purchasing
arriving (part of speech: verb)
attaining, arriving, coming, debarking, entering, accomplishing
Usage examples:
- In the streets of Shields, just after landing, he encountered a neighbour of the Robsons, and an acquaintance of his own. - "Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete", Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
- I think we can make a landing there. - "Lost in the Cañon", Alfred R. Calhoun.
- He ran down to the landing- stage, putting on his red glasses as he went. - "The Mystery of the Green Ray", William Le Queux.