landowner
/ˈlændəʊnə(r)/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈlændəʊnər/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈland-ˌō-nər/ (ame, mw)
landowner — noun
- landownersingular
- landownersplural
1. a person or organisation that holds legal title to a piece of land, often a wide
a person or organisation that holds legal title to a piece of land, often a wide farm, estate, or area in the countryside.
Salma is the largest private landowner in the valley, with three working farms and a stretch of forest.
collocation: largest private landowner
Many small landowners sold their fields to the railway company during the 1960s.
plural common usage: small landowners
Tyler inherited the estate from his grandfather and became a wealthy landowner at twenty-two.
The local landowner gave the hiking club permission to cross his fields each spring.
Absentee landowners rarely visit the villages where their farms are managed by tenants.
- proprietor
formal; emphasises legal title to property generally, not specifically land
- landlord
specifically someone who rents land or buildings to others
- landholder
near-synonym; slightly more formal, often used in historical or legal writing
文法句型
a landowner of [property]
the landowner who [does X]
用法筆記
Subject is usually a private person, a family, or a corporation that holds rural or agricultural land; rarely used of someone who only owns a small urban plot or a single house lot.