landslide

English

Etymology

From land +‎ slide.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.slaɪd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

landslide (plural landslides)

1. A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
   • 2016 September 30, “13 dead, 20 still missing in China after typhoon landslides”, in AP News‎^[1], sourced from Beijing (AP), archived from the original on September 25, 2024‎^[2]:

     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.

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

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

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)(loosely, sometimes proscribed) A vote won by a narrow majority that is nonetheless portrayed as wide, for any of various sociopsychological reasons.

   The candidate won at 52% to 48%, which many people are calling a landslide.

Synonyms

• (natural disaster): earthfall, landslip, mudflow

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 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
• 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 (es) 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)
• 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
• (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.