landlady

American  

[land-ley-dee] / ˈlændˌleɪ di /

noun

landladies plural

1. a woman who owns and leases an apartment, house, land, etc., to others.

2. a woman who owns or runs an inn, rooming house, or boardinghouse.

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landlady British  

/ ˈlændˌleɪdɪ /

noun

1. a woman who owns and leases property

2. a landlord's wife

3. a woman who owns or runs a lodging house, pub, etc

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• landladies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of landlady

First recorded in 1530–40; land + lady

Example Sentences

Landlady Jacqui Braithwaite says the direct impact on the community from the asylum seekers was "negligible" and residents "rarely" saw small groups of people from the base walking around the area.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025

Those who love joyous, dance-happy rock are encouraged to block off July 8, though, when the buoyant New York band Landlady gigs the Echo.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2015

Landlady, the expansive pop-folk band led by Adam Schatz, is a familiar face in the Brooklyn jazz and rock scenes, and draws from the wandering troubadour rock of the Band and Arcade Fire.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2015

"She always said, and I believed her, that the songs were pretty much not about one specific person," says Lillywhite, who produced Kite and its successor, Electric Landlady.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2012

We were all heartily at Supper, and in very little pain for the Absence of our Landlady, when on a sudden there came from the Alcove a very ugly Figure, dress'd all in white.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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