Definition

Adjective: 1. Owning no land: Describes a person, group, or class of people who do not possess any land or property. 2. (Archaic/Literary) Vast, boundless: Describing something, especially a sea or expanse, as having no visible limit or shore.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Owning no land):
  • The new policy aimed to provide opportunities for the landless farmers.
  • Historically, the landless peasantry worked as laborers on large estates.
• Adjective (Vast, archaic):
  • The ship drifted on the landless ocean for weeks. (This usage is now rare and poetic.)

Advanced Usage

• "the landless": Used as a collective noun to refer to the social class or group of people who own no land.
  • The movement fought for the rights of the landless.

Variants and Related Words

• Landlessness (noun): The state or condition of being without land.
  • Generations of landlessness trapped families in poverty.

Synonyms

• Propertyless: Lacking property or land.
• Dispossessed: Deprived of land or possessions.

Antonyms

• Landowning: Owning land.
• Properited: Having property or land.

Adjective

1. owning no land
   • the landless peasantry