landowner

[ land-oh-ner ]

noun

1. an owner own or proprietor of land.

landowner

/ ˈlændˌəʊnə /

noun

1. a person who owns land

Derived Forms

• ˈlandˌownerˌship, noun
• ˈlandˌowning, nounadjective

Other Words From

• landowner·ship noun
• landowning noun adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of landowner¹

First recorded in 1725–35; land + owner

Example Sentences

Stakeholders — including farmers, landowners, hunters, naturalists and wildlife management officials — often disagree on how or whether to sustain the wild wolf population.

From Washington Post

The amendment includes $5 million in funding for lending organizations to provide loans to landowners who are seeking to clear up or consolidate ownership, helping them pay for legal assistance or obtain necessary documentation.

From ProPublica

For example, 586 acres, which were once part of a West Oahu naval air station, would have involved prohibitive development costs and the requirement to involve surrounding landowners on infrastructure issues, according to DHHL.

From ProPublica

Finite Carbon, with 50 carbon projects over 3 million acres of land, connects landowners to businesses that pay a fee per ton of carbon dioxide permanently stored in the forest.

From Fortune

Similarly, we could contrast the landowner and the developer, who in producing homes provides a much-needed societal good.

From Voice of San Diego

The third eaglet was never found despite a search by the Flint Creek volunteers and the landowner.

From The Daily Beast

Patterson secured the permission of the landowner to venture onto the property.

From The Daily Beast

The father and son treasure-hunting obsessives split the roughly $1.2 million in proceeds with the landowner.

From The Daily Beast

In America,” de Tocqueville noted, “land costs little, and anyone can become a landowner.

From The Daily Beast

The real Watson was a sociopathic landowner in southwest Florida where land and water know no fixed boundary.

From The Daily Beast

For my own part, I see no difference now-a-days between the man who makes his money in business and the landowner.

From Project Gutenberg

When this occurs, the new land so formed is held to be the property of the farmer or landowner who has suffered loss.

From Project Gutenberg

Elias is eminent not only as an extensive landowner and cultivator, but as a statesman.

From Project Gutenberg

He might with equal probability have been an eccentric landowner or a gentlemanly ploughman.

From Project Gutenberg

Let there be no great landowner in the parish, and any combination on the part of the agriculturists becomes impossible.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• holder
• partner
• proprietor