landed estate
- noun
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- In 1814, he inherited a very large and liquid landed estate from his grandfather, including major land holdings in South Wales acquired through the 1st Marquess's advantageous marriage, as well as substantial holdings in the funds.
- a large landed estate
Examples
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The large landed estate formed an important feature of the Ecuadorian landscape in the Andean highlands.
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Social power still rested either with the monarch or with the owners of large landed estates.
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The large landed estate formed an important feature of the Ecuadorian landscape in the Andean highlands.
Academic text (1990) -
Financing of the church's operations came from a long tradition of royal patronage, as well as income generated from its extensive landed estates.
Academic text (1999) -
Several of these countries, like Britain, have titled aristocrats, many of whom obtain their incomes from their landed estates.
Synonyms
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1.0
An area of ground used for farming, building, or as a country
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1.4
Something that a person or group owns, for example land and buildings
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4.2
A large area of land owned by one person or family with a big house
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2.8
Land with buildings on it that people own, like houses or offices
27
5.4
Land and the buildings on it that someone owns
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4.9
A piece of land marked to sell or build on
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1.8
A small area of land that someone owns or uses
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4.0
A piece of land usually measured in acres and used for farming or building
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4.1
A large area of land used for a certain purpose
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2.9
A piece of land sold or owned as one unit
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5.1
An area of land that someone owns, like a farm or property
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9.9
Land by a large house or castle that the owner keeps for their own use, not rented to others
A large house with land in the countryside that is the main home of a family
Antonyms
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'landed' (relating to ownership of land) with 'estate' (a large privately owned property); together they denote a large privately owned area of land. This adjective+noun composition follows standard, compositional word-formation patterns common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Landed estate comes from a simple image: a family was landed, that is, they 'owned' land that gave them money, and an estate was the big house with its fields and woods. So landed estate came to mean a large area of countryside kept for one person or family.