Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large landed estate, especially of the ancient Romans.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman history, a great estate.
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- noun A great landed estate with
absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partialservitude .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Feyga Lejbowiczowa (d. 1730) was active mainly in the Konskowola section of the Sieniawski latifundium, owned and operated by the magnate noblewoman, Elzbieta Sieniawska.
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Sicilia is at peace, charge of it given permanently to Marcus Agrippa, the only one gifted with an old-style latifundium there.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Sicilia is at peace, charge of it given permanently to Marcus Agrippa, the only one gifted with an old-style latifundium there.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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They are demanding compensation not only for the U.S. properties nationalized by the Revolution, but also compensation for the properties of all the landlords, latifundium masters, and rich people who left Cuba and became U.S. citizens.
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Aurelian owns a huge latifundium; it can doubtless use an extra workman, if I put in a good word, and the senator will cover up any little irregularities for me.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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Aurelian owns a huge latifundium; it can doubtless use an extra workman, if I put in a good word, and the senator will cover up any little irregularities for me.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988
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It nationalized the large latifundium and brought many social benefits.
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One cannot talk about revolution if one does not put an end to the control of transnational companies, of foreign investments, of the latifundium, of private property, which are the main means for production.
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Historically, latifundium and unemployment forced thousands of families to come to these mountains and the cultivation technology was to cut down the trees.
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In the first place, the revolution, the abolition of the feudalistic system of exploiting land, the abolition of the latifundium and something else, the abolition of the minifundium, the establishment of adequate agricultural structures, the application of technology and scientific methodology in agriculture -- In two words, we can state that here in
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