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land-holder

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noun

  1. a person who owns or occupies land

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron.

From Time Magazine Archive

Colonel Marsh was a large land-holder in his native County, and at the time of his death, was the owner of the farm upon which he was born.

From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher

Some months ago a white land-holder in Montgomery County asked Mr. Carver to go through his farm with him for the purpose of inspecting it.

From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

He is influential and respected because he is a great land-holder with a high official position, and belongs by birth to that group of families which forms the permanent nucleus of the ever-changing Court society.

From Russia by Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace

In that fund the State, according to Rabourdin, became a stockholder, just as it persisted in being a land-holder and a manufacturer.

From Bureaucracy by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

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