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unlanded

unlanded adjective: not owning land.

Adjective

unlanded (not comparable)

  1. Not owning land.
    • Each obedientiary held his own rural estates as well as properties in the city and was supported by various unlanded officials.2004, Richard Goddard, Lordship and Medieval Urbanisation: Coventry, 1043-1355, page 95
    • India's agrarian system is based on large wealthy landholders and unlanded peasants, formerly of the lower caste, who are alienated from the current economic structure.2011, Jonathan White, Terrorism and Homeland Security
  2. Not having been brought to land.
    • an unlanded fish

Origin of unlanded

From un- + landed.

Questions about unlanded

What does unlanded mean?
Unlanded means not owning land.
What part of speech is unlanded?
Unlanded is an adjective.

Words near unlanded in the dictionary

  1. unlamenting
  2. unlaminated
  3. unlampooned
  4. unlanced
  5. unlandable
  6. unlanded
  7. unlandmarked
  8. unlandscaped
  9. unlanguaged
  10. unlanguid
  11. unlanguishing

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