landing

Universal Words noun 1 [C] the area at the top of a staircase where you arrive before you go into an upstairs room or move onto another staircase: Go up to the first-floor landing and it's the door on the right. 2 [C,U] an act of bringing an aircraft or a spacecraft down to the ground after a journey: a perfect / smooth / safe landing * the first Apollo moon landing * The pilot was forced to make an emergency landing. * a landing site OPPTAKE-OFF seealsoCRASHLANDING 3 [C] an act of bringing soldiers to land in an area that is controlled by the enemy 4 = LANDINGSTAGE