landslide

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Etymology

From land +‎ slide.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.slaɪd/, /ˈlæn.slaɪd/

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Noun

landslide (plural landslides)

2. A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.

   Synonyms: earthfall, landslip

   Near-synonym: mudflow

   • 2016 September 30, “13 dead, 20 still missing in China after typhoon landslides”, in AP News‎, sourced from Beijing (AP), archived from the original on 25 September 2024‎:

     The landslides Wednesday in Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, followed Typhoon Megi, which brought heavy rains and high winds to China and Taiwan this past week. […]
     The second landslide in Wencheng county killed five people, with one person still missing, an official at the county’s flood control office said Saturday.

4. A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.

   Synonym: landslide victory

   The candidate won at 61% to 39%, which most people are calling a landslide.

Usage notes

See at landslide victory § Usage notes.

Derived terms

• by a landslide
• Landslide Lyndon
• landslide victory

Translations

natural disaster

Arabic: اِنْهِيَار أَرْضِيّ m (inhiyār ʔarḍiyy) Armenian: սողանք (hy) (soġankʻ) Asturian: argayu m Basque: luizi Belarusian: апо́ўзень m (apóŭzjenʹ), абва́л m (abvál) Bulgarian: свличане (bg) n (svličane), свлачище (bg) n (svlačište) Burmese: မြေပြိုခြင်း (mre-pruihkrang:) Catalan: ensulsiada (ca), esllavissada (ca) f, esllavissament m 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 or f, aardverschuiving (nl) Esperanto: terŝoviĝo Finnish: maanvyöry (fi), maanvyörymä (fi) French: glissement de terrain (fr) m Friulian: slac m Galician: muracán m, freita f, nafreita f, barronca f, sulda f, fana f, esbarrondamento m Georgian: მეწყერი (mec̣q̇eri) German: Erdrutsch (de) m Alemannic German: Rufi f Greek: κατολίσθηση (el) f (katolísthisi) Hebrew: מַפֹּלֶת (he) f (mapólet) Hindi: भूस्खलन m (bhūskhalan) Hungarian: földcsuszamlás (hu) Indonesian: tanah longsor (id) Irish: maidhm thalún f, sciorradh talún m Italian: frana (it) f, smottamento (it) f, slavina (it) f Japanese: 地滑り (ja) (じすべり, ji-suberi), 山崩れ (ja) (やまくずれ, yama-kuzure), 山津波 (ja) (やまつなみ, yama-tsunami), 土砂崩れ (ja) (どしゃくずれ, dosha-kuzure) Kazakh: жылжыма (jyljyma), көшкін (kk) (köşkın) Khiamniungan Naga: sǖtàih Korean: 산사태(山沙汰) (ko) (sansatae) Ladin: roa f Lao: ດິນເກື່ອນ (din kư̄an) Latin: lābīna f Malay: tanah runtuh (ms) Malayalam: മണ്ണിടിച്ചിൽ (ml) (maṇṇiṭiccil) Maori: horo, horowhenua Maranao: anas, tempag, tobak Norwegian: steinras n Bokmål: jordras n, jordskred (no) n Nynorsk: jordras n, jordskred n Plautdietsch: Ieedrutsch f Pohnpeian: engk Polish: osuwisko (pl) n, obryw m Portuguese: deslizamento (pt) m, desabamento m, derrocada (pt) f Quechua: lluqlla Romanian: alunecare de teren f, alunecare de pământ f Russian: о́ползень (ru) m (ópolzenʹ), обва́л (ru) m (obvál), лави́на (ru) f (lavína) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: клизиште n, о̀дрон m, о̀сулина f Roman: klizište (sh) n, òdron (sh) m, òsulina (sh) f Sinhalese: නායයෑම් (nāyayǣm) Slovene: plaz (sl) m Spanish: corrimiento de tierra m, deslave (es) m (Latin America), desprendimiento terreno m, argayo (es) m (Spain), alud terrero m Swedish: jordskred (sv) n Tagalog: guho ng lupa, guhunlupa Thai: ดินถล่ม (din-tà-lòm), แผ่นดินถล่ม (pɛ̀n-din-tà-lòm) Tibetan: རྫ་རྡོ (rdza rdo), ས་རུད (sa rud) Ukrainian: зсув (uk) m (zsuv), о́повзень m (ópovzenʹ), обва́л m (obvál) Uzbek: oʻpirilish (uz), siljish (uz), koʻchish Vietnamese: lở đất (vi), sạt lở đất Welsh: tirlithriad m, cwymp tir m

vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority

Danish: jordskredssejr c Finnish: äänivyöry (fi) German: erdrutschartiger Sieg, überwältigender Sieg, Erdrutschsieg (de) m Italian: vittoria schiacciante f, a valanga Japanese: 地滑り的勝利 (じすべりてきしょうり, jisuberi-teki shōri) Polish: walne zwycięstwo n Portuguese: lavada (pt) Spanish: goleada (es) f, victoria aplastante f, tanateada arrolladora f Thai: ชนะขาดลอย (chá-ná-kàat-lɔɔi), นอนมา (nɔɔn-maa)

See also

• (natural disaster): avalanche, earthquake, mudslide, sandslide
• (politics): clean sweep, shoo-in

Verb

landslide (third-person singular simple present landslides, present participle landsliding, simple past and past participle landslid)

1. To undergo a landslide.
   • 1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356:

     So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.