LANDED ESTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landed estate mean? 

• LANDED ESTATE (noun)
  The noun LANDED ESTATE has 1 sense:

1. extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

  Familiarity information: LANDED ESTATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDED ESTATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate

Context example:

the family owned a large estate on Long Island

Hypernyms ("landed estate" is a kind of...):

immovable; real estate; real property; realty (property consisting of houses and land)

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

freehold (an estate held in fee simple or for life)

glebe (plot of land belonging to an English parish church or an ecclesiastical office)

leasehold (land or property held under a lease)

smallholding (a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation)

homestead (land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law)

feoff; fief (a piece of land held under the feudal system)

barony (the estate of a baron)

countryseat (an estate in the country)

Crown land (land that belongs to the Crown)

manor (the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it))

seigneury; seigniory; signory (the estate of a seigneur)

hacienda (a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries)

plantation (an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas))

entail (land received by fee tail)

 Context examples 

Anne had no Uppercross Hall before her, no landed estate, no headship of a family; and if they could but keep Captain Wentworth from being made a baronet, she would not change situations with Anne.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It being now pretty late, we took our candles and went upstairs, where we parted with friendly heartiness at his door, and where I found my new room a great improvement on my old one, it not being at all musty, and having an immense four-post bedstead in it, which was quite a little landed estate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)