propertied
- 1Owning land, buildings, or other real estate, especially holdings that generate a steady income.
The reforms gradually shifted political power toward the propertied middle class.
For centuries, only propertied citizens could hold public office.
Similarlanded, landowning, wealthy, moneyed, affluent
Oppositeunpropertied
Note
Built the way bearded and talented are built: property plus the -ed that means 'provided with'. Its natural home is social analysis, where it sorts people by what they own: the propertied classes, the propertied elite. Leslie Feinberg writes in Workers World (2004) of workers fighting 'the propertied classes that exploited their labor.' It sits before its noun, and its opposite is unpropertied.
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Origin
Formed from "property" combined with the suffix "-ed."