unowned
/ʌnˈəʊnd
/adjective
1Not having an owner: unowned land...
- No fences at all to be seen… no cattle… huge groups of rocks… hundreds of miles of seemingly unowned and uncultivated land.
- Lord Romilly's preliminary ruling sent a clear message to all landowners eyeing parcels of seemingly unowned land - commons, wastes, heaths and greens - with intent to develop, exploit or add them to their existing holdings.
- This is acceptable to Nozick since untalented people would have starved anyway had the land remained unowned.
2Not admitted to; unacknowledged.
Rhymes
- free-blowing
- free-blown
- freeboard
- freeboarded
- freeboot
- freebooter
- free-bootery
- free-booty
- freeborn
- free burgher
- free chant
- free chase
- Free Church
- Free Churchism
- Free Churchman
- Free Church of Scotland
- Free Cinema
- free city
- free climb
- free climber
- free climbing
- free coinage
- free collective bargaining
- free companion
- free company