land grant

American  

noun

1. a tract of land given by the government, as for colleges or railroads.

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land grant British  

noun

1. a grant of public land to a college, railway, etc

2. (modifier) designating a state university established with such a grant

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Etymology

Origin of land grant

First recorded in 1850–55

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Example Sentences

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land grant

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

Marquez’s byzantine effort to preserve the family cemetery, closely covered by The Times, centered on property within the Rancho Boca de Santa Monica, a land grant given to Francisco Marquez and Ysidro Reyes in 1839.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2024

Palmer says the Allen School’s international projects are a reflection of WSU’s land grant values of working within communities to improve lives and livelihoods.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

The construction program at the land grant university contributed to a $45-million deficit for the coming year, with expectations that it would rise to $75 million by 2028.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

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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