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单词 crown land
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Crown landn.

Brit. /ˈkraʊn land/, U.S. /ˈkraʊn ˌlænd/
Forms: see crown n. and land n.1 Also with lower-case initial in the first element (esp. in sense 2) or with capital initial in the second element.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: crown n., land n.1
Etymology: < crown n. + land n.1 In sense 2 after German Kronland, former name for an Austrian administrative province (1804; earlier in more general sense ‘land belonging to the (Austrian) Crown’ (1519)).Perhaps attested earlier in a surname: Avice Crouneland , Peter Crouneland (both 1341), although the sense of Crownland (especially of the fist element) in these examples is unclear. In quot. 1591 rendering Old Russian votčina inherited land, patrimony (a derivative of otec father), in this instance with reference to land belonging to the tsar.
1. Land belonging to the Crown, especially the British Crown, of which the revenue belongs to the reigning sovereign; (now also) land belonging to the state in some Commonwealth countries, common or public land. Also: an estate or tract of land belonging to the Crown or the state (usually in plural).
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land belonging to crown
Crown land1591
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xii. f. 36v The Vochin or Crowne lande conteyneth in it 36. townes with the territories or hundreds belonging vnto them.
a1614 W. Cope Apol. R. Cecil in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. x. 122 Custody Lands, anciently termed the Crown Lands, answered in the Pipe.
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 97 Our Crown-lands lye above.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 5 Selling the Crown-Lands, creating Peers for money.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. vii. 171 By their stated labour the crown-lands were cultivated.
1814 in Hist. Rec. Austral. (1916) 1st Ser. VIII. 329 The Intentions of Government to raise a Revenue from the Crown Lands.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. App. 563 The estates of the dissolved houses had become crown-land.
1919 Otago Daily Times (N.Z.) 1 Nov. 8 The provision..for granting areas of Crown lands to landless South Island natives..is revived.
1960 National Assembly Official Rep. (Republic of Kenya) 11 May 482 People moved there a long time ago, probably some time before it became a Crown land.
1977 H. O'Hagan Woman who got on at Jasper Station & Other Stories 81 The cabin, being built on Crown land, was there for anyone to use it.
2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. i. 10/1 This greatest of all public debates takes place between Australia's indigenous people and their supporters against pastoralists, lease holders of Crown land and mining companies.
2. Frequently in form crownland. Any of the administrative provinces of the Austrian Empire or (1867–1919) most of their successors in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now historical.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > area over which jurisdiction exercised
land and ledeOE
regimenta1393
franchisea1400
right?a1400
obeisance1419
liberty?1435
English palec1453
palec1453
English palea1549
judgement1617
command1621
commandment1632
bourne1818
Crown land1849
rulership1882
overseas territory1900
1849 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 223/1 The present expedition [into Hungary]..has a wider range, than..the subjugation of an Austrian crown land.
1850 Times 19 Jan. 6/3 A fifth provincial Constitution, that for the little Crownland of Carniola, has now appeared.
1871 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Mar. 1/2 The opposition of the national parties in the several crownlands..was not to be conjured away by the introduction of any bill.
1918 Christian Sci. Monitor 11 Nov. 5/1 Galicia is a crownland of Austria-Hungary north of the Carpathians.
1960 C. A. Macartney in J. P. T. Bury New Cambr. Mod. Hist. (1964) X. xx. 537 The Croats were thoroughly disgruntled at finding..Croatia merely a Crownland—under centralized rule and administered, no less than Hungary, by non-natives.
2001 C. L. Zugger Forgotten iii. xxiii. 337 Bukovina had been a crown land in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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