Definition of "land-hunger" [land-hunger]

• Greed for the acquisition of land or territory. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Always had her race been land-hungry, and she took delight in believing she had bred true; for had not she, despite her life passed in a city, found this same land-hunger in her?"
• "Years of freighting and mining had followed, and, with a stake gleaned from the Merced placers, he satisfied the land-hunger of his race and time by settling in Sonoma County."
• "The Russian people have just gotten a taste of liberty and are as crazy as was the man with the land-hunger."