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Landslide vs Landfall - What's the difference?

landslide | landfall |

As nouns the difference between landslide and landfall

is that landslide is a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path while landfall is arrival at the shore by ship.

landslide

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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

    See also

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

    landfall

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Arrival at the shore by ship.
  • We made landfall at the most god-forsaken, barren, desolate, and hellish location possible to image; and we were grateful, anything to get off that ship!
    Lighthouses are usually the first aids seen when making landfall .
  • The point at which a hurricane or similar storm reaches land.
  • Derived terms

    * make landfall