Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Owning land or real estate: Describes a person, family, or class that possesses land or property.
   • Consisting of land or real estate: Describes property or wealth that is in the form of land.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The landed gentry were influential in 19th-century politics. (This describes a social class that owned land.)
  • He comes from a landed family with vast estates in the countryside. (This describes a family that owns land.)
  • Her wealth is primarily in landed property. (This describes property consisting of land.)

Advanced Usage

• "the landed interest": A collective term for people or groups whose wealth and power are derived from owning land.
  • The policy was designed to protect the landed interest.
• "landed proprietor": A formal term for a landowner.
  • The landed proprietor managed the agricultural tenants on his estate.

Variants and Related Words

• Land (noun): The solid part of the earth's surface; an area of ground.
• Land (verb): To come or bring to rest on the ground or another surface.
• Landing (noun): The act of coming to land; a level area at the top of a staircase.
• Landless (adjective): Owning no land.
  • The reforms aimed to help the landless peasants.

Synonyms

• Properied: Owning property, especially land or buildings.
• Manorial: Relating to a manor or its lord (implies land ownership).
• Acreaged (less common): Possessing a certain acreage of land.

Antonyms

• Landless: Without ownership of land.

Adjective

1. owning or consisting of land or real estate
   • the landed gentry
   • landed property