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landowning

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[land-ohn-ing] / ˈlændˌoʊn ɪŋ /

adjective

  1. having ownership of land, especially in large amounts.


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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

The grant is based on a percentage of the profits of the independent property and landowning business, the Crown Estate.

From BBC • May 10, 2025

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

She won, becoming the first landowning woman in her village, and she began investing in real estate.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the landowning classes supplied this kind of direction to the State as the fruit of their leisure, and, despite some narrowness and selfishness, they undoubtedly did their work well.

From Success (Second Edition) by Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron

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