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# landowner

noun (a landowner, landowners)

«landowner» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A landowner is a person or group that owns land, especially a large area such as a farm, an estate or fields. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/#m1)
2. (law, money) A landowner has the right to decide how the land is used, and may rent it to others. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history lessons landowners were often rich and powerful, and poor people worked their land; in geography, landowners decide whether fields are farmed or built on. In everyday news a landowner may give or refuse permission for a path or a new house. Phrases: "wealthy landowner", "private landowner", "with the landowner's permission".

### Examples

- The landowner let us camp in his field for the night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/#x1)
- In the Middle Ages most farmers rented their fields from a landowner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/#x2)
- You need the landowner's permission to fish in this river. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/#x3)
- The landowner planted hundreds of trees on her hill. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/#x4)
- In the story, a greedy landowner threw the family off the farm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/#x5)
- Australia's biggest landowners run huge cattle stations. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/#x6)
- The council talked with three landowners about building the new school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/#x7)

### Note

Countable: a landowner, landowners. It is a compound of land + owner. A landowner may be a person, a family, a company or a church. Do not confuse with "landlord", who rents a house or flat to a tenant; a landowner owns the land itself (a landowner can also be a landlord).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «landowner» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/landowner/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«landowner» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/landowner.html) on Mova free.