Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Holding or possessing landed estates; pertaining to landowners: as, the land-owning class.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The owning of land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing one, or a group, that owns
real estate (i.e. land). - adjective Of or pertaining to the ownership of land.
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Examples
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An ancient way of life, the collaboration between landowning aristocrats and their peasant-tenants, is being undermined by the joint forces of political liberalism, antipapal secularism and a rising mercantile class.
A Lyric, Elegiac Lament for a Lost World Willard Spiegelman 2011
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My father comes from a wealthy landowning family, my mother from simple farming folk.
Afghanistan's Struggle Has Wide Resonance Vygaudas Usackas 2011
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If you want "limited," in the way Berkowitz means it, disband the military and give all well-to-do landowning males a musket.
Michael J.W. Stickings: What the Tea Party is Really All About Michael J.W. Stickings 2010
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The landowning aristocracy, far from "not deigning to dabble in trade," were eager entrepreneurs, using their excess capital to help make the Industrial Revolution happen.
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During the years of French Mandate Syria, Abdulfattah Jandali was born to a large landowning family in the midland town of Homs in 1931.
Sami Moubayed: iSad in Damascus: Syrians Reclaim Steve Jobs Sami Moubayed 2011
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If you want "limited," in the way Berkowitz means it, disband the military and give all well-to-do landowning males a musket.
Michael J.W. Stickings: What the Tea Party is Really All About Michael J.W. Stickings 2010
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The measure let landowning parishioners pay their taxes to the Anglican Church in cash rather than the usual tobacco (which drought had made unusually precious).
What He Saw at the Revolution Robert K. Landers 2010
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A key factor enabling China's transformation "China Population Balance Tilts Urban," World News, Jan. 18 is the ability of landowning local governments to simply grab land instead of transferring ownership by means of a sales contract.
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My father comes from a wealthy landowning family, my mother from simple farming folk.
My Long, Strange Journey to Afghanistan Vygaudas Usackas 2011
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One of the biggest existing landowning and conservation bodies, the National Trust, has coincidentally launched a six-month consultation on whether the nation is losing touch with the countryside.
Not on a roll: the 3.5 million voters who make up the democratic deficit Derek Brown 2010
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