landholding

noun

land·​hold·​ing ˈland-ˌhōl-diŋ How to pronounce landholding (audio)
1
: the state or fact of holding or owning land
2
: property in land
landholding adjective

Examples of landholding in a Sentence

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For at least 15 years, the Stamey father and son team worked on development opportunities for their landholdings bordered by I-40 to the north; U.S. Highway 70 and Statesville Regional Airport to the south; and manufacturers to the east and west. Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 22 Aug. 2025 Just as Ghanaian families have found customary land stewardship strained under the pressure of commodification and urban expansion, Black American families have seen their landholdings eroded by legal structures ill-suited to protect communal and oral inheritance. Taeya Boi-Doku, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2025 Historian Terry Bouton has argued compellingly that most of the framers, landholding elites, deeply mistrusted the mass of American countrymen, and saw democracy as a wild, unruly stallion that needed to be tamed. Matthew Redmond august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025 Found on Penicuik Estate, one of Scotland’s finest, rural landholdings, is Penicuik House, a historic house available for exclusive-use stays, due to open its doors next month. Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for landholding

Word History

First Known Use

1662, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of landholding was in 1662

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“Landholding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/landholding. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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