landed

adjective

land·ed ˈlan-dəd

Synonyms of landed next

: having an estate in land

landed proprietors

: consisting in or derived from land or real estate

landed wealth

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Resting atop the ridge, Princess Elisabeth resembles a freshly landed hexagonal spacecraft, its sleek silver panels reflecting the bright whites of the polar landscape. —

Serena Coady, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023 The landed gentry sit atop the social pyramid and below them the professionals and tenants—the latter precluded by price from mounting the property ladder themselves. —

WIRED, 18 Jan. 2023 The budding star has since landed campaigns with Fendi, Versace and Calvin Klein, and even appeared on the runway alongside her mom during Paris Fashion Week in 2021. —

Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022 So at Hopkins, landing fees per thousand pounds of landed weight is a dollar 25. —

Laura Johnston, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2022 The landed gentry of England just have a way of making the most rugged sports seem, in a word, gentlemanly. —

Brett Braley, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2022 After intense negotiations, the U.S. requested a special meeting later in that same year where a quota was revised from zero to 12 landed bowhead whales. —

Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022 Brands argue that pre-production sample runs are expensive, and the landed cost of a sample can actually be higher than that product’s in-season wholesale cost. —

Corey Buhay, Outside Online, 21 Aug. 2020 Up on a hill, looking down at the poor Lapvonians, is Villiam, a cruel and imbecile lord who lives in a landed estate and visits wickedness on the populace to keep them in place. —

New York Times, 13 June 2022 See More

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