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Definition of Landowning
1. n. The owning of land.
Definition of Landowning
1. Adjective. Describing one, or a group, that owns real estate (i.e. land). ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ownership of land. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Landowning
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Landowning
Literary usage of Landowning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1904)
"THE landowning FARMERS IN ENGLAND AT THE CLOSE OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. There is
a great abundance of material relating to the condition of the landowning ..."
2. Agricultural Economics by Henry Charles Taylor (1919)
"CHAPTER XXIV THE DECLINE OF landowning FARMERS IN ENGLAND Two hundred years ago
landownership on the part of farmers was common in England, but by 1000 it ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... in confidence that this supremacy would not be abused, so he wished the great
landowning connection resting on the rotten boroughs to rule over the ..."
4. The Disappearance of the Small Landowner: Ford Lectures, 1909 by Arthur Henry Johnson (1909)
"... OTHER CAUSES AFFECTING THE POSITION OF THE landowning CLASSES BUT if the
sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries were disastrous to the smaller owners ..."
5. Child Welfare in North Carolina by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Wiley Hampton Swift (1918)
"With their better training and education, together with the general lack of laws
upon the subject, they soon plunged the tenants and small landowning class ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... a faction started within the Conservative party to defend the interests of
the landowning class, which promoted extreme protection and adopted ..."
7. An Introduction to the Study of Agricultural Economics by Henry Charles Taylor (1905)
"Section I. The decline in the percentage of landowning farmers in the United
States.—There were no statistics available on the subject of land- ownership, ..."
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