All 6 Uses of
proprietor
in
The Idiot
- I cannot allow such a statement about the landed proprietors to pass unchallenged.†
Chpt 3.1 *
- In the first place, that is a considerable admission, and in the second place, one of the above was a peasant, and the other two were both landed proprietors!†
Chpt 3.1
- There does not, and there has never existed such a one, because all socialists are derived from the two classes—the landed proprietors, and the seminarists.†
Chpt 3.1
- All our eminent socialists are merely old liberals of the class of landed proprietors, men who were liberals in the days of serfdom.†
Chpt 3.1
- Why, you are a landed proprietor yourself!" cried Prince S. hotly.†
Chpt 3.1
- Give me their books, give me their studies, their memoirs, and though I am not a literary critic, yet I will prove as clear as day that every chapter and every word of their writings has been the work of a former landed proprietor of the old school.†
Chpt 3.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(proprietor) the owner of a business
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, proprietor can reference someone with sole or partial ownership of anything -- such as a trademark.