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Definitions: Landholding |
LandholdingNoun1. Ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land. 2. A holding in the form of land. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "landholding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
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Women | Comoros | A matriarchal African tradition affords women some rights, especially in terms of landholding. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Landholding" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Landholding" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "landholding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Vietnamese | sự chiếm hữu đất đất chiếm hữu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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Words beginning with "landholding": landholdings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "landholding" (pronounced la"ndhō'lding) |
| 9 | -a" n d h ō' l d i ng | handholding. |
| 4 | -l d i ng | balding, beholding, building, Fielding, folding, gilding, heralding, holding, Melding, molding, moulding, nonbuilding, overbuilding, rebuilding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, shielding, shipbuilding, unfolding, unyielding, upholding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, yielding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, banding, bedding, beheading, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, finding, flooding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handing, heading, heeding, herding, hiding, hoarding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unloading, unwinding, upgrading, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, wending, winding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-h-i-l-l-n-n-o" | |
-3 letters: dandling, halloing, handling, hollaing, hondling, longhand, noddling. | |
-4 letters: addling, dadoing, dolling, haloing, handing, hidalgo, holding, holland, ladling, landing, lanolin, loading, loaning, nodding. | |
-5 letters: adding, algoid, dialog, doling, gadoid, gallon, ganoid, hading, hagdon, haling, haloid, hilloa, hoddin, holing, honing, inland, lading, ladino, ligand, longan. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-g-h-i-l-l-n-n-o" | |
+1 letter: landholdings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 6E 64 68 6F 6C 64 69 6E 67 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -. -.. .... --- .-.. -.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a n d h o l d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 006E 0064 0068 006F 006C 0064 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667807074817870758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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