landowner
[land-oh-ner]
Origin of landowner
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Contemporary Examples
The third eaglet was never found despite a search by the Flint Creek volunteers and the landowner.
Patterson secured the permission of the landowner to venture onto the property.
The father and son treasure-hunting obsessives split the roughly $1.2 million in proceeds with the landowner.
In America,” de Tocqueville noted, “land costs little, and anyone can become a landowner.
“It has hit the Prince very hard,” a friend of the Norfolk landowner tells the Daily Telegraph's Tim Walker.
Historical Examples
Thereupon a man in a greatcoat, a landowner of La Palud, stepped forward.
The Fortune of the RougonsEmile Zola
Gaspard Vaillant had been a landowner near Civray, in Poitou.
Saint Bartholomew's EveG. A. Henty
Three times did this happen, and the landowner was reduced to poverty.
The Science of Fairy TalesEdwin Sidney Hartland
I have plenty of fruit, and I take a landowner's pride in my fruit.
Rene MauperinEdmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
He sneers at one for supposing any landowner has money for "philanthropy" just now.
Robert ElsmereMrs. Humphry Ward
landowner
- a person who owns land
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