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
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
"I couldn't fit anyone else in that night," landlady Charlotte Ratcliffe recalls.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Ms. McDonagh also writes about Elizabeth Anscombe, who was one of the 20th century’s major philosophers, and also a student, friend and landlady of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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
The landlady stood in her open doorway and her nose made a shadow to the bottom of her chin.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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