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/lˈændslˌaɪd/ /lˈænslˌaɪd/ Listen

noun

Landslip, Landslide n.

The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.

The land which slips down.

An election victory in which the winning candidate receives a substantial majority of the votes, usually meaning at least ten per cent more than any opposing candidate.

Any overwhelming victory.

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Etymology of 'Landslide'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Landslide" Quotes from Famous Books

... the railroad comes to us, through it the river escapes. The hills rear high and steep, their swelling flanks cloaked in sombre green and grey, with here and there a bald spot like a splash of ochre where there's been a landslide, climbing directly from the plain, with no foothills. A recluse, I have thought, must have chosen this spot for a town site; sickened of the world, he sought seclusion—and found it here to his heart's content. Until the coke-ovens ...

— The Fortune Hunter • Louis Joseph Vance

... Baxters!" put in Tom Rover, who stood close by, also watching the wind, and the heavy clouds rolling up from the westward. "Who ever supposed that they would be buried alive in that landslide on ...

— The Rover Boys on the Great Lakes • Arthur M. Winfield

... Roosevelt a majority of one and have added to his list the two California delegates who were counted out. Had such a change taken place, those who watched the Convention believed there would have been a "landslide" to Roosevelt. But the Republican Committee's sorely tested rules held. After that, the Rooseveltians saw ...

— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer

... Government was not dead. It had been merely dormant. Champions began to appear in unexpected quarters. New men spoke up, North and South. In spite of the Republican landslide of 1872, in 1874 the Democrats swept the Empire State. They carried the popular branch of Congress by an overwhelming majority. In the Senate they had a respectable minority, with Thurman and Bayard to lead it. In the House Randall and Kerr and Cox, ...

— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... strangely windless night, but her thoughts went whirling as though on wings of wind. Thoughts of fate, thoughts of scepticism jostled each other: pictures came; she saw the apple tree breaking through Lashnagar; she saw a landslide many years ago on Ben Grief that had torn bare strange coloured rocks in the escarpment. Just as she fell asleep, worn out, she thought that perhaps something beautiful might outcrop from her family, something different, something transforming. ...

— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles

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