English Dictionary

landed society

名詞

不可算名詞 可算名詞

(uncountable) A British socio-economic class of landowners, socially just below the aristocracy or peerage, who could live entirely from rental income.

日本語の意味

英国における地主階級。これは、貴族や貴族院に次ぐ地位を持ち、家賃収入のみで生活できる土地所有者の社会的階級を指す。

Many novels of the period portray the decline of the landed society as estates passed to distant heirs and the income that once supported them dwindled.

当時の多くの小説は、邸宅が遠方の相続人に渡り、かつてそれらを支えていた収入が次第に減少する中で、地主階級の衰退を描いている。

意味（1）

(uncountable) A British socio-economic class of landowners, socially just below the aristocracy or peerage, who could live entirely from rental income.

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.

意味（2）

(countable) A socio-economic system in which wealth and status are derived primarily from land ownership.

It was a landed society, a society which regarded only land and landed wealth as ultimately acceptable in creating status.

意味（3）

(countable) A secret society that owns its own premises.

It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior classes landed societies at Yale.

意味（4）

(countable) A landowner's association.

In October 1940 the Forestry Commissioners enlisted the services of forestry and landed societies to help with the distribution of wire and rabbit netting to private estates requiring it for afforestation purposes.

landed societies （ plural ）