land grant
Americannoun
noun
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a grant of public land to a college, railway, etc
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(modifier) designating a state university established with such a grant
Etymology
Origin of land grant
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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Bennet Evans Tarlow III was the great-great-grandson of the man who carved out and developed much of this area from an 18th-century Spanish land grant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Voters last year approved an increase in annual distributions from the land grant fund to public schools and early childhood education programs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Pam Doiron lives in the western part of the valley on a cattle ranch called the Spanish Ranch, which was once part of a Mexican land grant dating to 1843.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
The family established roots in California during the Great Depression when Dahle’s grandfather was awarded an 80-acre land grant in Tulelake, near the Oregon border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
When years before they had first come to the people living on the Cebolleta land grant, they had not said what kind of mineral it was.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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