- landlady
- noun Date: circa 1536 a woman who is a landlord
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landlady
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landlady — Female of landlord or owner of real property from whom one rents or leases residential or commercial real estate. Category: Real Estate & Rental Property → Renters & Tenants Rights Nolo’s Plain English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen… … Law dictionary
landlady — land la dy, n.; pl. {landladies}. [Cf. {landlord}.] 1. A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants. [1913 Webster] 2. The mistress of an inn or lodging house. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
landlady — UK US /ˈlændˌleɪdi/ noun [C] (plural landladies) ► PROPERTY a woman who owns a room, building, or piece of land that someone else pays rent to use ► UK COMMERCE a woman who owns or manages a pub, bar, or small hotel → Compare LANDLORD(Cf.… … Financial and business terms
landlady — 1520s, from LAND (Cf. land) (n.) + LADY (Cf. lady) … Etymology dictionary
landlady — ► NOUN 1) a woman who leases land or property. 2) a woman who keeps lodgings, a boarding house, or (Brit. ) a public house … English terms dictionary
landlady — [land′lād΄ē] n. pl. landladies [after LANDLORD] 1. a woman who rents or leases land, houses, etc. to others 2. a woman who keeps a rooming house, inn, etc … English World dictionary
landlady — [[t]læ̱ndleɪdi[/t]] landladies 1) N COUNT Someone s landlady is the woman who allows them to live or work in a building which she owns, in return for rent. We had been made homeless by our landlady. 2) N COUNT The landlady of a pub is the woman… … English dictionary
landlady — For the sense development of this word, see Landlord. ‘Landlady’ is rarely used in modern times, though it was common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, addressed to the hostess of an inn. The polite lieutenant who explains to the… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
landlady */ — UK [ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪdɪ] / US [ˈlændˌleɪdɪ] noun [countable] Word forms landlady : singular landlady plural landladies 1) a woman who owns a house, flat, or room that people can rent 2) British a woman who owns or manages a pub or a small hotel • See:… … English dictionary
landlady — noun Landlady is used after these nouns: ↑pub … Collocations dictionary
landlady — I landlady, landlord (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. proprietor, owner; host, innkeeper, boniface; landholder, landowner. See possession. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. proprietress, concierge, innkeeper; see owner … English dictionary for students
