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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Etymology
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
Lindsay, 52, best known for playing the Rovers Return landlady Shelley Unwin on the ITV soap set in Greater Manchester, said she was "extremely honoured", and dedicated the award to working class actors.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
“He left a week ago. Like idiots we told him to mail us the key. The landlady is in Florida. We’ve been in the country at Francis’s the whole time.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
"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
It’s oozing with the sort of ingredients that cause a sugar rush of emotional associations: Paris, Provence, charming book stores, eccentric landladies, lost loves, even cats.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2015
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
Now I think I may say that all my life, or nearly all, I have been an eager and earnest student of landladies.
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
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