landowning class
Estate-holding elite
The landowning class consists of people who derive wealth and status from owning land, particularly agricultural estates.
Historically, this group held political power through property requirements for voting and office-holding: The landowning class dominated Parliament for centuries.
The term often carries connotations of inherited privilege and conservative interests, contrasting with merchants, laborers, or industrial capitalists.
- lordNobleman or ruler
- noble birthAristocratic family lineage
- ruling eliteDominant governing class
- eliteSuperior select group
- manorLanded aristocratic residence
hunting grounds · bourgeoisie · aristocracy · property rights · rentier · patronage · feudalism · old money · country estate · serf · inheritance · primogeniture · estate tax · agrarian economy · governance · patrician · fiefdom · junker
landowning classtenant farmers
Agriculturalists renting land
landless peasants · renters · sharecroppers · leaseholders · cottagers
landowning classpeasantry
Rural working class
working class · lower classes · proletariat · common people · underclass
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