LANDOWNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landowner mean? 

• LANDOWNER (noun)
  The noun LANDOWNER has 1 sense:

1. a holder or proprietor of land

  Familiarity information: LANDOWNER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDOWNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A holder or proprietor of land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

landholder; landowner; property owner

Hypernyms ("landowner" is a kind of...):

holder (a person who holds something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landowner"):

abutter (the owner of contiguous property)

franklin (a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth)

freeholder (the owner of a freehold)

laird (a landowner)

landlord (a landowner who leases to others)

squire (an English country landowner)

 Context examples 

Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner’s dwelling.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle, in his fawn-coloured driving-coat, with all his harness of the same tint, looked the ideal of a Corinthian whip; while Sir John Lade, with his many-caped coat, his white hat, and his rough, weather-beaten face, might have taken his seat with a line of professionals upon any ale-house bench without any one being able to pick him out as one of the wealthiest landowners in England.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are several people in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in his interest.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)