Definition of "latifundium"

latifundium

noun
plural latifundia
1. (chiefly in the plural) A great landed estate with absentee ownership and labor often in a state of partial servitude.
  Quotations
  The conclusive military victory of Philip V left the grandees stranded, still rich and still powerful on their latifundia, but stripped of the ‘aristocratic republicanism’ they had previously enjoyed.
  2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 251
  His vision for the future of the African continent in the Age of the Aerotropolis seems to be as a vast latifundium sown with GM wheat.
  2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9