property-owning

Adjective Satellite

Meaning

owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

landed proprietary possessive propertied middle class upper class landowning

Antonyms

landless middle class

Examples

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. Helen Clark

With this all Roman able-bodied, property-owning male citizens were divided into five classes for military service based on their wealth and then organised into centuries as sub-units of the greater Roman army or legio (multitude). Source: Internet

Before 1917, the Netherlands had a first past the post single seat system with census suffrage (per the constitution of 1814), in which only property-owning adult males had the right to vote. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

property that can be moved property that cannot be moved property that is movable property-theoretic propertyless propertylessness