Landholding

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A piece of property (land) that is held (owned). countable

    "Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened. For instance, the annual surtaxes of Buddhist temples' landholdings of Hsia-p'u county which had amounted to 515 taels in the late Ming dropped to 309 taels after Ch'ien-lung's edict, and to 229 taels soon afterwards."

  2. 2
    a holding in the form of land wordnet
  3. 3
    The state or practice of owning land. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land wordnet

Etymology

From land + holding.

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