landed society noun4 •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. — 1982 •A British socio-economic class of landowners, socially just below the aristocracy or peerage, who could live entirely from rental income.Over the years, historians of the late-medieval English gentry have mapped out several working models to explain the character and behavior of landed society in various localities around the country. — 2006 •A landowner's association.Allegiance to the homestead ethic thus inspired the settlers to resist incorporation in a landed society dominated by the Southern Pacific Railroad and its Big Three owners. — 1991 •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. — 2011 formslanded societies
