Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that owns and rents land, buildings, or dwelling units.
  • noun A man who runs a rooming house or an inn; an innkeeper.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The lord of land or of a manor; one of whom land is held subject to the payment or performance of rent or service; the owner or holder of a tenement, to whom the tenant pays rent.
  • noun The master or proprietor of an inn, or of a lodging-house or boarding-house; a host.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
  • noun The master of an inn or of any form of lodging house.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo.
  • noun chiefly UK The owner or manager of a public house.
  • noun surfing, slang, with “the” A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a landowner who leases to others

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Examples

  • It's advertised with the term "landlord is flexible", which I later learn means that I am willing to offer it furnished or part-furnished.

    Diary of a landlord: open day viewings 2011

  • The landlord appeared; not a gentleman, not a rich man, as the term landlord might denote, but a stout, square, stubbed, thick-limbed, grey-eyed man, who seemed to have come smoking hot from hard labour.

    Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • The landlord (even if the landlord is a governmental entity) is entitled to make his own independent determination of what happened, in making the decisions the landlord must make, without deference to the findings of the criminal justice system.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » What Should Landlords Do If a Tenant Is Accused of a Violent Crime? 2010

  • If the landlord is a foreigner, and I couldn't find that in the OP, the landlord is in trouble if he did not get permission to rent property or he has not paid Hacienda taxes on the property.

    Nightmare in Baja, please help 2009

  • If the landlord is a foreigner, and I couldn't find that in the OP, the landlord is in trouble if he did not get permission to rent property or he has not paid Hacienda taxes on the property.

    Nightmare in Baja, please help 2009

  • If you rent, your landlord is the one obligated to pay the trash collection fee unless your lease say differently.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Health Care Mandate a Direct Tax? 2010

  • If the landlord is a foreigner, and I couldn't find that in the OP, the landlord is in trouble if he did not get permission to rent property or he has not paid Hacienda taxes on the property.

    Nightmare in Baja, please help 2009

  • If the landlord is a foreigner, and I couldn't find that in the OP, the landlord is in trouble if he did not get permission to rent property or he has not paid Hacienda taxes on the property.

    Nightmare in Baja, please help 2009

  • But Johnston knows her landlord is already charging her less than the going rate for similar flats, and has been told there is no prospect of the rent being reduced.

    Benefit cuts: 'I cried when I heard about the changes. What will I do?' Amelia Gentleman 2010

  • If the landlord is a foreigner, and I couldn't find that in the OP, the landlord is in trouble if he did not get permission to rent property or he has not paid Hacienda taxes on the property.

    Nightmare in Baja, please help 2009

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