acreocracy

English

Etymology

From acre +‎ -ocracy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /eɪkəˈɹɒkɹəsi/

Noun

acreocracy

1. Important landowners, considered as a class.
   • 1876, John Bateman, (title):

     The Acre-ocracy of England: A list of all owners of three thousand acres and upwards.

   • 2005, Russell Davies, Hope and Heartbreak, page 93:

     This acreocracy, like all Welsh social groups, was deeply riven with profound internal divisions.

2. The land owned by such people.
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 13:

     We'd been two years on our Pedernales acreocracy, not far from Fredericksburg, when our neighbor had two horses stolen in broad daylight.