landholder

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or organization that owns or legally holds land, especially an agricultural estate

   The landholder leased part of the estate to tenant farmers.

A compound of land + holder. Hold has long carried the legal sense of possessing property under a particular tenure, so landholder can emphasize either ownership or a legally recognized interest in land.

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