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LANDED ESTATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
Example:
the family owned a large estate on Long Island
Synonyms:
acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
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)
