landowner

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-om

Proto-Germanic *landą

Proto-West Germanic *land

Old English land

Middle English lond

English land

Middle English ouner

English owner

English landowner

From land + owner.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlændˌəʊ.nə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlændˌoʊ.nɚ/

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Noun

landowner (plural landowners)

1. A person who owns land.

   Synonym: landholder

   • 1951 June, “The Why and the Wherefore: Abandoned Branch Lands”, in Railway Magazine, page 428:

     If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.

   • 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎^[1], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175:

     The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.

Derived terms

• landownership
• nonlandowner

Translations

a person who owns land

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: terrateniente m or f
• Belarusian: землеўла́снік m (zjemljewlásnik), землеўла́сніца f (zjemljewlásnica), землеўлада́льнік m (zjemljewladálʹnik), землеўлада́льніца f (zjemljewladálʹnica), паме́шчык m (pamjéščyk), паме́шчыца f (pamjéščyca), абша́рнік m (abšárnik), абша́рніца f (abšárnica)
• Bulgarian: земевладе́лец (bg) m (zemevladélec)
• Catalan: terratinent (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地主 (zh) (dìzhǔ)

• Czech: statkář (cs) m, statkářka f
• Danish: jordbesidder c, jordejer c
• Dutch: grondbezitter (nl) m
• Faroese: jarðareigari m
• Finnish: maanomistaja (fi)
• French: propriétaire terrien (fr) m, propriétaire terrienne (fr) f
• Galician: terratenente m or f
• Georgian: მიწათმფლობელი (mic̣atmplobeli)
• German: Grundbesitzer (de) m, Grundbesitzerin (de) f
• Greek: γαιοκτήμονας (el) m (gaioktímonas), κτηματίας (el) m (ktimatías)
• Hindi: ज़मींदार m (zamīndār), जमींदार (hi) m (jamīndār)
• Hungarian: földbirtokos (hu)
• Icelandic: landeigandi m, jarðeigandi (is) m
• Irish: uachtarán m, urra m
• Italian: proprietario terriero m
• Japanese: 地主 (ja) (じぬし, jinushi; じしゅ, jishu)
• Korean: 지주(地主) (ko) (jiju)
• Macedonian: земјопо́седник m (zemjopósednik), земјопосе́дничка f (zemjoposédnička), земјовла́делец m (zemjovládelec) земјовладе́лица f (zemjovladélica), земјовла́дејач m (zemjovládejač), земјовладе́јачка f (zemjovladéjačka)
• Māori: kaipupuri whenua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grunneier m, jordeier (no) m

  Nynorsk: grunneigar m, jordeigar m

• Occitan: tèrratenent m or f
• Old English: landāgend
• Persian: زمین‌دار (zamin-dâr)
• Polish: właściciel ziemski m, właścicielka ziemska f
• Portuguese: terratenente m or f
• Russian: землевладе́лец (ru) m (zemlevladélec), землевладе́лица (ru) f (zemlevladélica), поме́щик (ru) m (poméščik), поме́щица (ru) f (poméščica) (acquired negative meaning after 1917 revolution)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: земљопоседник m, земљопосједник m, земљовласник m

  Latin: zemljoposednik m, zemljoposjednik (sh) m, zemljovlasnik m

• Slovak: statkár m, statkárka f
• Spanish: terrateniente (es) m or f, latifundista (es) m or f (large area), minifundista m or f (smaller area)
• Swedish: markägare (sv) c, godsägare (sv) c, jordägare (sv) c
• Turkish: arazi sahibi, ağa (tr)
• Ukrainian: землевла́сник m (zemlevlásnyk), землевла́сниця f (zemlevlásnycja), помі́щик (uk) m (pomíščyk), помі́щиця f (pomíščycja) (acquired negative meaning after 1917 revolution)
• Urdu: زمیندار m (zamīndār)
• Volapük: (♂♀) länedal, (♂) hilänedal, (♀) jilänedal