Landowner
['lændəʊnə] or ['lændonɚ]
Definition
(n.) An owner of land.
Editor: Trudy
Examples
- One sees dotted over the country windmills large and small, and in Holland, the country of windmills, the landowner who does not possess a windmill is poor indeed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner's dwelling. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The rich men of the world before this time had been great landowners or money-lenders and money manipulators or merchants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He created a commission to inquire into the title of all landowners. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were hundreds of baronets in England, and dozens of landowners in Hampshire. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- McCormick showed his machine at the great international exhibitions and gradually induced the large landowners to consider it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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