Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who owns and rents land, buildings, or dwelling units.
- noun A woman who runs a rooming house or an inn; an innkeeper.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who owns houses or lands occupied by tenants.
- noun The wife of a squire or proprietor.
- noun The mistress of an inn or of a lodging-house or boarding-house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.
- noun The mistress of an inn or lodging house.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Female
landlord
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a landlord who is a woman
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Examples
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The other main character in the book apart from the murderer and his landlady is the city of London in the Noughties; socially and ethnically mixed, but on edge and easily fractured.
Cambridge Lib Dems... nwhyte 2010
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On Thursday night she complained of shortness of breath, and finding she did not get better she called her landlady.
British Library creates a "national memory' with digital newspaper archive 2011
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Keep your head down, the landlady is looking at us.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Keep your head down, the landlady is looking at us.
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We know our landlady is making a calculated gamble that she'll make more on our "affordable" but sure income for sev months each winter, rather than hoping that she'll be able to make a little more by renting it out to one of the many Mexican families who regularly flock to the coast every weekend.
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We know our landlady is making a calculated gamble that she'll make more on our "affordable" but sure income for sev months each winter, rather than hoping that she'll be able to make a little more by renting it out to one of the many Mexican families who regularly flock to the coast every weekend.
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We know our landlady is making a calculated gamble that she'll make more on our "affordable" but sure income for sev months each winter, rather than hoping that she'll be able to make a little more by renting it out to one of the many Mexican families who regularly flock to the coast every weekend.
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We know our landlady is making a calculated gamble that she'll make more on our "affordable" but sure income for sev months each winter, rather than hoping that she'll be able to make a little more by renting it out to one of the many Mexican families who regularly flock to the coast every weekend.
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Our landlady is just happy with anything we do because we have spent a lot of money to make improvements and we always pay our rent on time.
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I called my landlady and casually inquired if my tailor had been there.
The Secrets of the German War Office Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
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