landless
Owning no estate
Landless describes someone who owns no land, especially in contexts where land ownership determines economic security or social standing.
The term often appears in discussions of agricultural societies, where landless peasants or laborers work others' fields: Landless farmers had few options but to accept whatever wages were offered.
It can also describe displaced populations or those excluded from property ownership by economic or legal barriers.
Removed from property legally
- expropriatedTaken by authority
- disinheritedExcluded from inheritance
- displacedShifted from proper location
- uprootedRemoved from foundation
expelled · ousted · dispossession · enclosure · confiscation · seized · foreclosed · clearances
Severe lack of resources
- destituteUtterly without means
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- deprivationState of lacking necessities
needy · pauperized · hardship · struggling · underprivileged · subsistence · agrarian · smallholder
Aimless, rootless traveler
- vagrantHomeless itinerant person
- wandererRootless, roving person
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- itinerantMoving for work
homeless · refugee · stateless · migrant · displaced · exile · expatriate · uprooted
evicted
Removed from property legally
- expropriatedTaken by authority
- disinheritedExcluded from inheritance
- displacedShifted from proper location
uprooted · expelled · ousted · dispossession · enclosure · confiscation · seized · foreclosed · clearances · appropriated
poverty
Severe lack of resources
- destituteUtterly without means
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
deprivation · needy · pauperized · hardship · struggling · underprivileged · subsistence · agrarian · smallholder · day laborer
drifter
Aimless, rootless traveler
itinerant · homeless · refugee · stateless · migrant · displaced · exile · expatriate · uprooted · unsettled
peasant
Low-status agricultural laborer
villein · thrall · manorial · fiefdom · bondage · servitude · indenture · sharecropper · crofter · laborer
pastoralist
Grazer of livestock
steppe · caravan · Tuareg · Mongol · Sami · Maasai · yurt · ger · migratory · seasonal
- social strataclass, caste, upper class, middle class, lower class
- Vulnerable Groupshomeless youth, orphans, refugees, disabled people, elderly poor
- non-ownersrenters, tenants, lessees, lodgers, boarders
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
- displaced peoplerefugee, displaced, IDPs, asylum seeker, displaced persons
landlesslanded
Came to rest
landowning · propertied · landholding · proprietor · freeholder
landlesslanded
Came to rest
landed gentry · propertied · aristocratic · lord · feudal lord
landlesslanded
Came to rest
landed gentry · propertied · aristocratic · gentry · privileged