latifundium
a great estate.
Origin of latifundium
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How to use latifundium in a sentence
The situation is scarcely better in parts of the country which are free from latifundia.
Contemporary Socialism | John RaeVerumque confitentibus latifundia perdidre Italiam, immo ac provincias.
In many cases it also promotes, as in ancient Rome, the latifundia ownership with all its results.
Woman and Socialism | August BebelHeisterbergk827 thinks that the latifundia were not produced by economic causes, but by vanity and ostentation.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerThe colonial latifundia gets broken up for the same economic reasons as that of the mother country.
British Dictionary definitions for latifundium
/ (ˌlætɪˈfʌndɪəm) /
a large agricultural estate, esp one worked by slaves in ancient Rome
Origin of latifundium
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