Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who lacks land or landed possessions; one who, like a younger son, inherits no territory: as, John Lackland, King of England.
  • Having no land.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word lackland.

Examples

  • In the second "lackland" half, it is the instructive history of a scattered people, organically one, in spite of dispersion, by reason of its unshaken ideal traditions; a people accepting misery and hardship with stoic calm, combining the characteristics of the thinker with those of the sufferer, and eking out existence under conditions which no other nation has found adequate, or, indeed, can ever find adequate.

    Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history 1900

  • As yet his dreams and speculations had turned to little personal profit, and he was as much a lackland as ever.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Too, there was the remote possibility that some lackland wanderer might come by and find a flaw in the protection of the Estates -- even somehow penetrate to the Residence.

    The Weakling Everett B. Cole

  • But they showed the instability of the usual lackland wanderers.

    The Weakling Everett B. Cole

  • There, he told himself, was the result of the carelessness of those lackland fools who had been entrusted with the defense of the home planet.

    The Weakling Everett B. Cole

  • Protector had been overcome by some predatory lackland wanderer, who had then managed by one means or another to secure his own accession to the estates of his victim.

    The Weakling Everett B. Cole

  • Even some lackland idiot should be able to understand that much.

    The Weakling Everett B. Cole

  • When John lackland subjected to cruel persecution the English bishops who, in spite of him, recognized Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • As yet his dreams and speculations had turned to little personal profit; and he was as much a lackland as ever.

    Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821

  • BootCamp4Me. com & www. lackland.af.mil Processing Week Initial Physical Fitness

    WN.com - Articles related to Kazakh lawmakers give president lifetime immunity 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.