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Landlady

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A woman who owns and rents land, buildings, or dwelling units.

n. A woman who runs a rooming house or an inn; an innkeeper.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Female landlord

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

n. The mistress of an inn or lodging house.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A woman who owns houses or lands occupied by tenants.

n. The wife of a squire or proprietor.

n. The mistress of an inn or of a lodging-house or boarding-house.

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

n. a landlord who is a woman

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

landlord

Cross Reference

landowner

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

hostess

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

housekeeper matron landlord butler hostess