landowner

English

Etymology

From land +‎ owner.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlændˌəʊ.nə/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈlændˌoʊ.nɚ/

Noun

landowner (plural landowners)

A person who owns land.
- 1999, Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History‎, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, OCLC 760689122, page 175:
  The largest owner of tea lands on the island in the late 1800s (and Taiwan’s single wealthiest family) were the Lins of Pan-ch’iao. Along with other great familial and corporate landowners, the Pan-ch’iao Lins drew income from renting their properties under a flexible, sophisticated contractual system of land tenure.

Translations

a person who owns land

Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Asturian: terrateniente m or f
Belarusian: землеўла́снік m (zjemljeŭlásnik), землеўла́сніца f (zjemljeŭlásnica), землеўлада́льнік m (zjemljeŭladálʹnik), землеўлада́льніца f (zjemljeŭladálʹnica), паме́шчык m (pamjéščyk), паме́шчыца f (pamjéščyca), абша́рнік m (abšárnik), абша́рніца f (abšárnica)
Bulgarian: земевладе́лец (bg) m (zemevladélec)
Catalan: terratinent (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 地主 (zh) (dìzhǔ)
Czech: statkář (cs) m, statkářka f
Dutch: grondbezitter (nl) m
Finnish: maanomistaja (fi)
French: propriétaire terrien (fr) m, propriétaire terrienne (fr) f
Galician: terratenente m or f
Georgian: მიწათმფლობელი (mic̣atmplobeli)
German: Grundbesitzer (de) m, Grundbesitzerin (de) f
Greek: γαιοκτήμονας (el) m (gaioktímonas), κτηματίας (el) m (ktimatías)
Hindi: ज़मींदार m (zamīndār), जमींदार (hi) m (jamīndār)
Hungarian: földbirtokos (hu)
Irish: uachtarán m, urra m
Italian: proprietario terriero m
Japanese: 地主 (ja) (じぬし, jinushi; じしゅ, jishu)
Korean: 지주(地主) (ko) (jiju)
Macedonian: земјопоседник m (zemjoposednik), земјопоседничка f (zemjoposednička)
Maori: kaipupuri whenua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: grunneier m, jordeier (no) m
Occitan: tèrratenent m or f
Old English: landāgend
Persian: زمین‌دار‎ (zamin-dâr)
Polish: właściciel ziemski m, właścicielka ziemska f
Portuguese: terratenente m or f
Russian: землевладе́лец (ru) m (zemlevladélec), землевладе́лица (ru) f (zemlevladélica), поме́щик (ru) m (poméščik), поме́щица (ru) f (poméščica) (acquired negative meaning after 1917 revolution)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: земљопоседник m, земљопосједник m, земљовласник m
Roman: zemljoposednik m, zemljoposjednik (sh) m, zemljovlasnik m
Slovak: statkár m, statkárka f
Spanish: terrateniente (es) m or f
Swedish: markägare (sv) c, godsägare (sv) c
Turkish: arazi sahibi, ağa (tr)
Ukrainian: землевла́сник m (zemlevlásnyk), землевла́сниця f (zemlevlásnycja), помі́щик (uk) m (pomíščyk), помі́щиця f (pomíščycja) (acquired negative meaning after 1917 revolution)
Urdu: زمیندار‎ m (zamīndār)
Volapük: (♂♀) länedal, (♂) hilänedal, (♀) jilänedal