landlady
Americannoun
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a woman who owns and leases an apartment, house, land, etc., to others.
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a woman who owns or runs an inn, rooming house, or boardinghouse.
noun
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a woman who owns and leases property
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a landlord's wife
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a woman who owns or runs a lodging house, pub, etc
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Etymology
Origin of landlady
Example Sentences
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June asks the landlady, who answers, “Kid who lived here got drafted.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Among them is Miss Connulty, a respected landlady, whose tragic past prompts her to warn Ellie that “love was a madness.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
Ms. Ypi tells us that the two had been close enough for her grandfather to once offer to settle the penniless Hoxha’s debts with his Parisian landlady.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
Anita Dobson's Queen Vic landlady Angie Watts made a surprise return to visit her daughter Sharon, as she drifted in and out of consciousness in the show's 40th anniversary episode in February.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
Janie went down and the landlady made her drink some coffee with her because she said her husband was dead and it was bad to be having your morning coffee by yourself.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
"It's not just people in the music industry, this was also happening to barmaids, pub landladies and people's mums," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The demonstration was organised by two landladies in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, and was attended by people of all ages.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2021
Even picture postcards, Igo relates in one of many humorous and eye-opening vignettes, came under fire for enabling, one magazine’s editors wrote, “servants and landladies to have the full benefit of our private matters.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018
The landladies run their fingers along the tops of wardrobes, tutting, while the men argue about their Visit Britain accreditation, mouths full of tepid bacon.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
Some were dirty and slovenly: the landladies of these called the children "little dears," and said "they doted on children."
From Salome by Marshall, Emma
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