landowning

Speech parts

1. landowning - Noun

2. landowning - Adjective

Meaning

The owning of land.

Having property in land; of or pertaining to landowners.

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Examples

Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects. Carl L. Becker

Although the vast majority of the Irish population was Catholic, only Protestants could sit in the Irish Parliament and only landowning men could vote. Source: Internet

Born into an extremely wealthy landowning family in northern Mexico, Madero was an unusual politician, who until he ran for president in the 1910 elections, had never held office. Source: Internet

“Furthermore, the government must invest in a land demarcation system that allocates land accurately to every landowning group. Source: Internet

Macrobius says that Virgil's father was of a humble background; however, scholars generally believe that Virgil was from an equestrian landowning family which could afford to give him an education. Source: Internet

Gradually political power shifted away from the old Tory and Whig landowning classes towards the new industrialists. Source: Internet

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