landowning
Americanadjective
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Meanwhile, the Deep South consisted of a landowning class, some of whom relocated from slave plantations in the Caribbean, who formed an "oligarchic, top-down society".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
This clan has, for generations, sorted out any problems the Abdalahs, one of Mr. Mueenuddin’s landowning families, have had with their laborers and with their neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
There are already wind turbines atop the butte, built by the landowning Galt family with Borgquist’s help.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
The so-called English squirearchy, which began as a military class, gradually became a landowning caste from which the members of Parliament were elected.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023
There is a suggestion that the poet had not only given up his work, but that the taint of landowning under the existing conditions had corrupted him.
From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by Forestier, A. (Amédée)
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