LAND TENURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does land tenure mean? 

• LAND TENURE (noun)
  The noun LAND TENURE has 1 sense:

1. the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands

  Familiarity information: LAND TENURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAND TENURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

land tenure; tenure

Hypernyms ("land tenure" is a kind of...):

legal right (a right based in law)

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

copyhold (a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services)

freehold (tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life)

villeinage (tenure by which a villein held land)