landholding

Owned plot acreage

Landholding refers to the possession or ownership of land, or to the land itself that someone owns or controls.

A landholding can be a small plot or a vast estate: The family's landholdings stretched across three counties.

As an adjective, it describes those who possess land: the landholding class, landholding farmers.

The term appears frequently in discussions of property, agriculture, and historical social structures.

legal

deed

Written property conveyance

plot · survey · zoning · boundary · ownership · conveyance · registration · encumbrance · lien · easement

agriculture

farm

Agricultural land tract

acreage · pasture · orchard · vineyard · tillage · husbandry · fallow · arable · agronomy · soil

estate

manor

Landed aristocratic residence

hacienda · demesne · palazzo · castle · mansion · grounds · parkland · grange · manse · estancia

wealth

assets

Owned items of value

  • capitalWealth used for investment
  • equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
  • portfolioCollected works or assets

inheritance · fortune · prosperity · affluence · endowment · appreciation · patrimony · legacy · accumulation · aristocracy

tenure

tenancy

Renter's period of residence

tenant · squatting · renting · sublet · heritable · reversion · serfdom · sharecropping · communal · collective

territory

sovereignty

Supreme independent authority

district · jurisdiction · realm · fiefdom · dominion · colony · demarcation · annexation · enclave · conquest

Categories
Opposites
property ownership status

landholdinglandlessness

Lacking owned territory

renting · tenancy · dispossession · tenantry · land loss

property disposition

landholdingland sale

Selling of real estate

divestiture · forfeiture · land transfer · expropriation · confiscation

relationship to landed wealth

landholdinglandlessness

Lacking owned territory

peasantry · serfdom · proletariat · tenant farming · propertylessness

Family

landholdings

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