landlady
Americannoun
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landladies
plural
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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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Origin of landlady
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“We now live in a large duplex with our landlady and her daughter,” Maggie tells me.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Also, this was no time to be a picky landlady.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
The landlady is putting us up a huge basket of provisions; it seems enough for a company of soldiers.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"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
The bed, bountifully supplied with coverings—had Dandelion Cottage been suddenly transported to Alaska the lodger would still have had blankets to spare, so generously had her enthusiastic landladies provided—looked very comfortable indeed.
From Dandelion Cottage by Carroll Watson Rankin
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