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landowner

[ land-oh-ner ]

/ ˈlændˌoʊ nər /

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noun

an owner or proprietor of land.

Origin of landowner

First recorded in 1725–35; land + owner

OTHER WORDS FROM landowner

land·own·er·ship, noun land·own·ing, noun, adjective

Words nearby landowner

landmine, lando, landon, landor, landouzy-déjérine dystrophy, landowner, landowska, landrace, landrost, landrum-griffin act, landry

Example sentences from the Web for landowner

The third eaglet was never found despite a search by the Flint Creek volunteers and the landowner.

He Faces Jail for Rescuing Baby Eagles |Michael Daly |November 2, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Patterson secured the permission of the landowner to venture onto the property.

He Faces Jail for Rescuing Baby Eagles |Michael Daly |November 2, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The father and son treasure-hunting obsessives split the roughly $1.2 million in proceeds with the landowner.

How To Strike Viking Gold |Lizzie Crocker |October 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In America,” de Tocqueville noted, “land costs little, and anyone can become a landowner.

In the Future We'll All Be Renters: America's Disappearing Middle Class |Joel Kotkin |August 10, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

“It has hit the Prince very hard,” a friend of the Norfolk landowner tells the Daily Telegraph's Tim Walker.

Prince Charles's Best Friend, Hugh van Cutsem, Dies |Tom Sykes |September 4, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The transient usually returns to Europe, but the landowner remains.

Our Foreigners |Samuel P. Orth
In such cases, then, the landowner has not a right to the full economic or competitive rent.

Distributive Justice |John A. (John Augustine) Ryan
The farmer has been the first sufferer; the turn of the landowner is approaching.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 417, July, 1850 |Various
As a fact, then, the cottages are of no money value to the landowner.

The Hills and the Vale |Richard Jefferies
We stayed at the house of a landowner who was one of his adherents.

The Foundations of Japan |J.W. Robertson Scott

British Dictionary definitions for landowner

landowner

/ (ˈlændˌəʊnə) /

noun

a person who owns land

Derived forms of landowner

landownership, noun landowning, noun, adjective