Lexic.us

Definition of Landslide

1. Noun. An overwhelming electoral victory. "Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide"

2. Noun. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff.

Definition of Landslide

1. Noun. A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path. ¹

2. Noun. A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Landslide

1. to win an election by an overwhelming majority [v -SLID, -SLIDDEN, -SLIDING, -SLIDES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Landslide

landscapes landscaping landscapist landscapists landscrip landscrips landside landsides landskip landskips

landsleit landslid landslidden landslide (current term) landslide victories landslide victory landslides landsliding landslip landslips

landsman landsmen landspout landspouts landwaiter landwaiters landward landwards

Literary usage of Landslide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Societal Value of Geologic Maps by Richard L. Bernknopf (1994)
"landslide Potential and landslide Hazards Issue: How does geologic map information help identify the threshold level of acceptable risk ..."

2. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes by Robert Fiske Griggs (1922)
"EVIDENCE THAT IT WAS SOME SORT OF landslide The manifest suddenness of its formation, its occurrence at the time of the eruption, and other features suggest ..."

3. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"The reader cannot know what a landslide is, unless he has lived in that country and seen the whole side of a mountain taken off some fine morning and ..."

4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1904)
"10 A landslide ON THE LIEVRE RIVER". ... that a landslide of very large proportions had occurred in the vicinity of Poupore Post Office on the Lievre river, ..."

5. The Law of Personal Injuries on Railroads by Edward Joseph White (1909)
"Defense was made by the railway company that the landslide was due to the act of God, in that it was a sudden slide, caused by the vibration of the train ..."

6. Glaciation of the Uinta Mountains by Wallace Walter Atwood (1903)
"The amount and widespread distribution of landslide topography in the region ... landslides and large areas of typical landslide topography have been found ..."

7. The Lives of William McKinley and Garret A. Hobart, Republican Presidential by Henry Benajah Russell (1896)
"Democratic landslide of 1882 — Grover Cleveland Comes to the Front — McKinley in his Old District — McKinley's Opponent Elected by only Eight Votes —Judge ..."

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