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land-holder
noun
- a person who owns or occupies land
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Derived Forms
- ˈland-ˌholding, adjectivenoun
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Example Sentences
I had to look at him a second time ere I could recognise Jack Wallingford, my father's bachelor cousin, the western land-holder.
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A rich land-holder will have his rice fields, sugar mill, vino factory, and cocoanut and hemp plantations.
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If he was a land-holder, if all his children were Catholics, he was obliged to divide the land equally between them.
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My name is Arthur Cherami, former land-holder, ci-devant premier high-liver of the capital.
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Subsequently it was used in England to denote a land-holder who was of free but not of noble birth.
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