landowner

[ land-oh-ner ]

/ ˈlændˌoʊ nər /

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noun

an owner or proprietor of land.

Words nearby landowner

landmine, lando, landon, landor, landouzy-déjérine dystrophy, landowner, landowska, landrace, landrost, landrum-griffin act, landry

Origin of landowner

First recorded in 1725–35; land + owner

OTHER WORDS FROM landowner

land·own·er·ship, nounland·own·ing, noun, adjective

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Examples from the Web for landowner

The third eaglet was never found despite a search by the Flint Creek volunteers and the landowner.
He Faces Jail for Rescuing Baby Eagles|Michael Daly|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Patterson secured the permission of the landowner to venture onto the property.
He Faces Jail for Rescuing Baby Eagles|Michael Daly|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The father and son treasure-hunting obsessives split the roughly $1.2 million in proceeds with the landowner.
How To Strike Viking Gold|Lizzie Crocker|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In America,” de Tocqueville noted, “land costs little, and anyone can become a landowner.
In the Future We'll All Be Renters: America's Disappearing Middle Class|Joel Kotkin|August 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“It has hit the Prince very hard,” a friend of the Norfolk landowner tells the Daily Telegraph's Tim Walker.
Prince Charles's Best Friend, Hugh van Cutsem, Dies|Tom Sykes|September 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The transient usually returns to Europe, but the landowner remains.
Our Foreigners|Samuel P. Orth
In such cases, then, the landowner has not a right to the full economic or competitive rent.
Distributive Justice|John A. (John Augustine) Ryan
The farmer has been the first sufferer; the turn of the landowner is approaching.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 417, July, 1850|Various
As a fact, then, the cottages are of no money value to the landowner.
The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies
We stayed at the house of a landowner who was one of his adherents.
The Foundations of Japan|J.W. Robertson Scott

British Dictionary definitions for landowner

landowner

/ (ˈlændˌəʊnə) /

noun

a person who owns land

Derived forms of landowner

landownership, nounlandowning, noun, adjective

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