landed society
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A British socio-economic class of landowners, socially just below the aristocracy or peerage, who could live entirely from rental income.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As defined by English judges, common law itself offered tenants some minimal protections that eighteenth-century New York rentiers had often ignored. Thus the legal custom of landed society had exempted from seizure beasts of plow, certain essential household goods, and especially the implements of trade unless all other remedies had proved insufficient."
- "What makes this particular period so interesting is the remarkably volatile nature of the land market in Scotland; an enormous amount of land changed hands, and some minor noble families made quite staggering inroads into the highest levels of landed society."
- "Over the years, historians of the late-medieval English gentry have mapped out several working models to explain the character and behavior of landed society in various localities around the country."
- "It was a landed society, a society which regarded only land and landed wealth as ultimately acceptable in creating status."
- "For them Locke was the classic theorist of landed society and the landholder, not of commerce and mercantile interests."
- "In addition, it is perhaps of equal importance that in a landed society those at the top of the pyramid have interests in common and little to divide them."