LANDLORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landlord mean? 

• LANDLORD (noun)
  The noun LANDLORD has 1 sense:

1. a landowner who leases to others

  Familiarity information: LANDLORD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDLORD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landowner who leases to others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("landlord" is a kind of...):

landholder; landowner; property owner (a holder or proprietor of land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "landlord"):

landlady (a landlord who is a woman)

 Context examples 

We have heard, too, of the attack upon the landlord, which was undoubtedly meant for the lodger.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The landlord gave a very visible start.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These planets are the natural landlords of the other houses of the horoscope, so this means that your partner is influencing much of your life right now.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“There’s only the one path out of the garden,” cried the landlord, leading the way.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neither varlet nor ostler could be seen, so he pushed open the door and called loudly for the landlord.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I waited for none of the landlord’s explanations.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is the best landlord, and the best master, said she, that ever lived; not like the wild young men nowadays, who think of nothing but themselves.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Then you can rent the house and be a landlord yourself.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I remember one hot evening I went into the bar of a public-house, and said to the landlord: “What is your best—your very best—ale a glass?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have no cause to do otherwise than like him; and I believe he is considered a just and liberal landlord by his tenants: but he has never lived much amongst them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)