Roget's Thesaurus

#779. Possessor

Nouns

possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person in possession, man in possession etc. 777; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee; zemindar, ryot; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life. owner; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator, master, mistress, lord. land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord; lord of the manor, lord paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord; planter. cestui-que-trust [Fr.], beneficiary, mortgagor. grantee, feoffee, releasee [Law], relessee, devisee; legatee, legatary. trustee; holder of the legal estate etc.; mortgagee. right owner, rightful owner. [Future possessor] heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress; inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix; reversioner, remainderman.