LANDFALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landfall mean? 

• LANDFALL (noun)
  The noun LANDFALL has 2 senses:

1. the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)

2. the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)

  Familiarity information: LANDFALL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDFALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("landfall" is a kind of...):

coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore (the shore of a sea or ocean)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("landfall" is a kind of...):

sighting (the act of observing)

 Context examples 

During 2017’s Hurricane Irma, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that a simultaneous space weather event brought down radio communications used by first responders, aviation and maritime channels for eight hours on the day the hurricane made landfall.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)