landfall | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun landfall has 2 senses

landfall - the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)
--₁ is a kind of seashore, coast, seacoast, sea-coast
landfall - the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)
--₂ is a kind of sighting

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