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“Domain” derives from Old French, denoting heritable or landed property; its Latin-derived cognate, “domicile,” means, of course, “home.”

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2022

The Romans used fundus to mean foundation or the main part of something, but especially to mean farm, or landed property - perhaps the basis of someone's wealth.

From BBC Apr. 29, 2015

I have lived here for many years, and, at one time, owned considerable landed property, and very often I would take my dogs out hunting mongooses in the pastures.

From Time Magazine Archive

This humane institution has a landed property of about 30 acres, by the produce of which, as well as frequent public collections, it is supported.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

Then, their landed property would be taken on some pretext—the vineyards and olive-yards inherited from their fathers—and given to his favourites.

From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie




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