Definition of latifundium in English:

latifundium

nounPlural latifundiaˌlɑːtɪˈfʌndɪəmˌlatɪˈfʌndɪəmˌlædəˈfəndiəm

A large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or more recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by peasants or slaves.
（古罗马的）大庄园；（旧时西班牙或拉美的）大农场，大庄园
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite this industrialisation, a third of the population still worked as agricultural labourers, many in large estates or latifundia.
- The labour needed to work these latifundia was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land.
- The Alentejo has traditionally been a region of low population density, latifundia that originated in the Roman estate system, and landless day laborers.
- In the seventh and eighth centuries, the city drew its food supply from the public, papal, and ecclesiastical patrimony in the Latium countryside and the latifundia of Sicily.
- The countryside was dominated by giant estates or latifundia.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin, from latus 'broad' + fundus 'landed estate', partly via Spanish.

Definition of latifundium in US English:

latifundium

nounˌlædəˈfəndiəmˌladəˈfəndēəm

A large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or more recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by slaves.
（古罗马的）大庄园；（旧时西班牙或拉美的）大农场，大庄园
Example sentencesExamples
- The Alentejo has traditionally been a region of low population density, latifundia that originated in the Roman estate system, and landless day laborers.
- The labour needed to work these latifundia was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land.
- In the seventh and eighth centuries, the city drew its food supply from the public, papal, and ecclesiastical patrimony in the Latium countryside and the latifundia of Sicily.
- Despite this industrialisation, a third of the population still worked as agricultural labourers, many in large estates or latifundia.
- The countryside was dominated by giant estates or latifundia.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin, from latus ‘broad’ + fundus ‘landed estate’, partly via Spanish.

单词	latifundium
释义	Definition of latifundium in English: latifundium nounPlural latifundiaˌlɑːtɪˈfʌndɪəmˌlatɪˈfʌndɪəmˌlædəˈfəndiəm A large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or more recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by peasants or slaves. （古罗马的）大庄园；（旧时西班牙或拉美的）大农场，大庄园 Example sentencesExamples Despite this industrialisation, a third of the population still worked as agricultural labourers, many in large estates or latifundia. The labour needed to work these latifundia was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land. The Alentejo has traditionally been a region of low population density, latifundia that originated in the Roman estate system, and landless day laborers. In the seventh and eighth centuries, the city drew its food supply from the public, papal, and ecclesiastical patrimony in the Latium countryside and the latifundia of Sicily. The countryside was dominated by giant estates or latifundia. Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin, from latus 'broad' + fundus 'landed estate', partly via Spanish. Definition of latifundium in US English: latifundium nounˌlædəˈfəndiəmˌladəˈfəndēəm A large landed estate or ranch in ancient Rome or more recently in Spain or Latin America, typically worked by slaves. （古罗马的）大庄园；（旧时西班牙或拉美的）大农场，大庄园 Example sentencesExamples The Alentejo has traditionally been a region of low population density, latifundia that originated in the Roman estate system, and landless day laborers. The labour needed to work these latifundia was provided by transforming free peasants into unfree tenants tied to the land. In the seventh and eighth centuries, the city drew its food supply from the public, papal, and ecclesiastical patrimony in the Latium countryside and the latifundia of Sicily. Despite this industrialisation, a third of the population still worked as agricultural labourers, many in large estates or latifundia. The countryside was dominated by giant estates or latifundia. Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin, from latus ‘broad’ + fundus ‘landed estate’, partly via Spanish.
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