Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - landing

(landings) 1. In a house or other building, the landing is the area at the top of the staircase which has rooms leading off it. I ran out onto the landing. N-COUNT: usu the N in sing 2. A landing is an act of bringing an aircraft or spacecraft down to the ground. I had to make a controlled landing into the sea... The plane had been cleared for landing at Brunswick’s Glynco Airport. N-VAR 3. When a landing takes place, troops are unloaded from boats or aircraft at the beginning of a military invasion or other operation. American forces have begun a big landing. N-COUNT 4. A landing is the same as a landing stage. N-COUNT