landowner

UK/ˈlændˌəʊ.nə/US/ˈlændˌoʊ.nɚ/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,460 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: landowners

A landowner is somebody who owns a large piece of land. A major landowner, the landowner's consent, absentee landowners.

In Britain a very small number of them own a very large share of the country, and much of it is unregistered, so nobody can say exactly who. An absentee landowner is one who never sets foot on the estate.

Definitions of landowner

1nounlandownerSomebody who owns a large piece of land.B2+
“The local landowner refused to let walkers cross his fields.”

landowner is an owner.

Where it comes from

From land + owner.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

landowner in the wild

Although a conservation easement prohibits certain uses by the landowner, such an easement does not make the land public.
Conservation easement
Furthermore, many conservation easements reserve to the landowner specific uses, which if not reserved would be prohibited.
Conservation easement
A landowner is the holder of the estate in land with the most extensive and exclusive rights of ownership over the territory, simply put, the owner of land.
Land tenure
From 2011 to 2021, Malone ranked as the largest private landowner in the United States with 2.2 million acres, according to The Land Report.
John C. Malone
The doctrine is designed to protect children who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object, by imposing a liability on the landowner.
Attractive nuisance doctrine

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