landowner

English

Etymology

From land + owner.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlændˌəʊ.nə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈlændˌoʊ.nɚ/

Noun

landowner (plural landowners)

  1. A person who owns land.
    • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:
      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 system of land tenure.

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