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
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