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landowner|ˈlændəʊnə(r)|
[f. land n.1 + owner.]
An owner or proprietor of land. Hence ˈlandownership.
a1733North Ld. Kpr. North (1742) 137 Any Land Owner may make that which they call a Key, next to the River. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. xii. (1879) 255 Each landowner in the valley possesses a certain portion of hill-country. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 141 Landowners hastened to sell their estates for whatever could be got. 1867Musgrave Nooks Old France II. 334 England's landownership will never be without the representatives and reflected honours of her ancient Aristocracy. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 91 Many large land-owners in England refuse to let their land for long periods.
So ˈlandowning n. and a.
1845Miall in Nonconf. V. 149 The landowning majority contemplate no concessions. 1881Macm. Mag. XLIV. 127 Landowning and farming are as much businesses as cotton-spinning. 1894Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. 280, I..have no landowning relations. |