| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| landsleit |
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| SYLLABICATION: | lands·leit |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  länts l t |
| NOUN: | Plural of landsman2. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Yiddish landslayt, from Middle High German lantsliute, natives, compatriots : lant, land; see landsman2 + liute, pl. of liut, person, people (from Old High German; see leudh- in Appendix I).
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