noun
Meaning 1
landowners
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Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
landowners
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
those who own a portion of land
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noun
class of oligarchic landowners descending from the first Corinthian settlers who in 733 BC, according to the chronology of Thucydides, had founded Syracuse
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History
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γεωμόροι (geōmóroi), ultimately from γεω- (geō-, “earth”) + μέρος (méros, “part, share, portion”), whence the latter comes from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to assign, allot”). Doublet of gamoroi.