Landlord

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that owns and rents land, buildings, or dwelling units.
  • n. A man who runs a rooming house or an inn; an innkeeper.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo.
  • n. The owner or manager of a public house.
  • n. A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
  • n. The master of an inn or of any form of lodging house.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. The master or proprietor of an inn, or of a lodging-house or boarding-house; a host.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a landowner who leases to others
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    landlady   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    host    innkeeper    publican   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    proprietor    owner    employer    farmer    tenant