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crown land

noun

Definition of crown land

1 : land belonging to the crown and yielding revenues that the reigning sovereign is entitled to
2 : public land in some British dominions or colonies

Examples of crown land in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

 Many Native Hawaiians consider these lands part of the inventory of resources illegally taken from them by the United States and view the state as only temporary stewards of these crown lands. — Trisha Kehaulani Watson-sproat, Vox, "Why Native Hawaiians are fighting to protect Maunakea from a telescope," 24 July 2019

First Known Use of crown land

1591, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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