landowner

/ˈlændəʊnə(r)/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈlændəʊnər/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈland-ˌō-nər/ (ame, mw)

landowner — 名詞

  • landownersingular
  • landownersplural

1. a person or organisation that holds legal title to a piece of land, often a wide

1.名詞B2
釋義

地主

擁有土地產權的人或機構

a person or organisation that holds legal title to a piece of land, often a wide farm, estate, or area in the countryside.

例句

Salma is the largest private landowner in the valley, with three working farms and a stretch of forest.

Salma 是這座山谷裡最大的私人地主，擁有三座運作中的農場和一片森林。

collocation: largest private landowner

Many small landowners sold their fields to the railway company during the 1960s.

1960 年代，許多小地主把他們的田地賣給了鐵路公司。

plural common usage: small landowners

同義詞
  • 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

反義詞
  • tenant

    person who pays to use someone else's land

  • squatter

    person who occupies land without legal title

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.

常見錯誤

❌I am the landowner of my apartment.
✅I am the owner of my apartment.
💡'landowner' implies open land such as fields, farms, or estates, not flats or small house lots.