n. A piece of property (land) that is held (owned).
n. The state of owning land.
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n. ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land.
n. A holding in the form of land; the land owned by a person.
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n. a holding in the form of land
n. ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land
Word Usage
"Once again, the flexibility of Southeast Asian conceptualizations of polities meant that the ruler's power did not need to be based on rooted infrastructures such as landholding, bureaucracy, or highly institutionalized state organizations."