landed

landed
[[t]læ̱ndɪd[/t]]
ADJ: ADJ n
Landed means owning or including a large amount of land, especially land that has belonged to the same family for several generations.

Most of them were the nobility and the landed gentry.

...the erosion of the aristocracy's landed wealth.


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