LANDED ESTATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)