landfall
noun /ˈlændfɔːl/
/ˈlændfɔːl/
- [uncountable, countable] (literary) the act of arriving on land after a long journey by sea or by air, or the land that you first see or arrive at
- After three weeks they made landfall on the coast of Ireland.
- Hurricane Katrina roared across the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall.
- San Salvador is thought to be the original landfall of Christopher Columbus.
- (also landslide)[countable] a mass of earth, rock, etc. that falls down the slope of a mountain or a cliff