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Definition 2024

landslide

landslide

English

Noun

landslide ‎(plural landslides)

A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
The candidate won by a landslide.

Synonyms

(natural disaster): earthfall, landslip

Translations

natural disaster

Arabic: اِنْهِيَار أَرْضِيّ m ‎(inhiyār ʾarḍiyy)
Catalan: ensulsiada
Chinese:
Mandarin: 山崩 (zh) ‎(shānbēng), 滑坡 (zh) ‎(huápō), 地滑 (zh) ‎(dìhuá), 塌方 (zh) ‎(tāfāng)
Danish: bjergskred n, jordskred (da) n
Dutch: lawine (nl) m, f, aardverschuiving (nl)
Esperanto: terŝoviĝo
Finnish: maanvyöry, maanvyörymä
French: glissement de terrain (fr) m
Georgian: მეწყერი ‎(mec̣q̇eri)
German: Erdrutsch (de) m
Greek: κατολίσθηση (el) f ‎(katolísthisi)
Hungarian: földcsuszamlás (hu)
Indonesian: tanah longsor (id)
Italian: frana (it) f, smottamento (it) f, slavina (it) f
Japanese: 地滑り ‎(じすべり, ji-suberi), 山崩れ ‎(やまくずれ, yama-kuzure), 山津波 ‎(やまつなみ, yama-tsunami), 土砂崩れ ‎(どしゃくずれ, dosha-kuzure)

Korean: 산사태 (ko) ‎(sansatae) (山沙汰 (ko))
Ladin: roa f
Malay: tanah runtuh
Maori: horo, horowhenua
Norwegian: steinras n

Bokmål: jordras n, jordskred n

Nynorsk: jordras n, jordskred n
Pohnpeian: engk
Polish: osuwisko (pl) n
Portuguese: deslizamento m, desabamento m, derrocada f
Quechua: lluqlla
Romanian: alunecare de teren f
Russian: о́ползень (ru) m ‎(ópolzenʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: odron (sh) m, osulina (sh) f
Slovene: plaz (sl) m
Spanish: corrimiento de tierra m
Swedish: jordskred (sv) n
Tagalog: guho ng lupa, guhunlupa

vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority

Japanese: 地滑り的勝利 ‎(じすべりてきしょうり, jisuberi-teki shōri)

See also

(natural disaster): avalanche, earthquake, mudslide
(politics): shoo-in