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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Origin of landlady
Example Sentences
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The court heard the landlady and her partner escorted Gothard - who lived three or four houses from the bar - away to "calm the situation down".
From BBC • May 7, 2026
June asks the landlady, who answers, “Kid who lived here got drafted.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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
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
Tomorrow after school she would go downstairs to the basement, where Señora Rodriguez, the landlady, doubled as a music teacher.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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