LANDHOLDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landholder mean? 

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

1. a holder or proprietor of land

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDHOLDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A holder or proprietor of land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

landholder; landowner; property owner

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

holder (a person who holds something)

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

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 

All this may be stamped on it; and that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great landholder of the parish by every creature travelling the road; especially as there is no real squire's house to dispute the point—a circumstance, between ourselves, to enhance the value of such a situation in point of privilege and independence beyond all calculation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She might not wonder, but she must sigh that her father should feel no degradation in his change, should see nothing to regret in the duties and dignity of the resident landholder, should find so much to be vain of in the littlenesses of a town; and she must sigh, and smile, and wonder too, as Elizabeth threw open the folding-doors and walked with exultation from one drawing-room to the other, boasting of their space; at the possibility of that woman, who had been mistress of Kellynch Hall, finding extent to be proud of between two walls, perhaps thirty feet asunder.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)