landowner
part of speech
noun (a landowner, landowners)
meaning for a pupil
1) A landowner is a person or group that owns land, especially a large area such as a farm, an estate or fields. tree →
2) (law, money) A landowner has the right to decide how the land is used, and may rent it to others. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history lessons landowners were often rich and powerful, and poor people worked their land; in geography, landowners decide whether fields are farmed or built on. In everyday news a landowner may give or refuse permission for a path or a new house. Phrases: "wealthy landowner", "private landowner", "with the landowner's permission".
examples
- The landowner let us camp in his field for the night. tree →
- In the Middle Ages most farmers rented their fields from a landowner. tree →
- You need the landowner's permission to fish in this river. tree →
- The landowner planted hundreds of trees on her hill. tree →
- In the story, a greedy landowner threw the family off the farm. tree →
- Australia's biggest landowners run huge cattle stations. tree →
- The council talked with three landowners about building the new school. tree →
note
Countable: a landowner, landowners. It is a compound of land + owner. A landowner may be a person, a family, a company or a church. Do not confuse with "landlord", who rents a house or flat to a tenant; a landowner owns the land itself (a landowner can also be a landlord).
In the corpora
- Toad, a landed proprietor» (a landowner).
- The early workers were paid exactly what the landowner had promised them in the morning, yet they grumbled.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «landowner» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.