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語源

From land +‎ slide.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈlæn(d).slaɪd/

名詞

landslide (plural landslides)

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

   Synonyms: earthfall, landslip

   Near-synonym: mudflow

   • 2016 September 30, “13 dead, 20 still missing in China after typhoon landslides”, in AP News‎, sourced from Beijing (AP), archived from the original on 25 September 2024‎:

     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.

   Synonym: landslide victory

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

使用する際の注意点

See at landslide victory § Usage notes.

派生語

参考

• (natural disaster): avalanche, earthquake, mudslide, rockslide, sandslide, scriddan
• (politics): clean sweep, shoo-in

動詞

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.