landowner
UK/ˈlændˌəʊ.nə//ˈlændˌoʊ.nɚ/
landowner noun: a person who owns land.
Noun
landowner (plural landowners)
- A person who owns land.
- If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was...1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428
- The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual...1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175
- Synonyms:
- landholder
landowner meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
landowner in Hindi
- a person who owns land
- ज़मींदार zamīndār, जमींदार jamīndār
landowner in Tamil
- நில உரிமையாளர்
landowner in Urdu
- a person who owns land
- زمیندار zamīndār
landowner in Bengali
- landowner, landlord
- জমিদার jomidar
More languagesFewer languages
- landowner in Odia
- ଜମିମାଲିକ
- landowner in Nepali
- जमिनदार jamindār
- landowner in Persian
- زمیندار zamin-dâr
Examples of landowner in a sentence
- In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:
- Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:
Synonyms of landowner
Forms of landowner
| plural | landowners |
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Origin of landowner
From land + owner.
Words formed from landowner
Questions about landowner
- What does landowner mean?
- Landowner means a person who owns land.
- What is landowner in Hindi?
- Landowner in Hindi is ज़मींदार (zamīndār), जमींदार (jamīndār). See Landowner meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use landowner in a sentence?
- In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
- What part of speech is landowner?
- Landowner is a noun.
- How do you pronounce landowner?
- Landowner is pronounced /ˈlændˌəʊ.nə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of landowner?
- The plural of landowner is landowners.
Words near landowner in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: landowner (page history and authors); landowner (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); জমিদার (Bengali) (page history and authors); landowner (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); जमिनदार (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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