landlord
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English
Etymology
From Middle English londlord, landlorde, from Old English landhlāford, equivalent to land + lord. Cognate with Scots landlaird, Middle Low German lantlord (“homeowner, landlord”).
Pronunciation
Noun
landlord (plural landlords)
- A person that leases real property; a lessor.
- Synonyms: lessor, lease provider, (informal) leaser
- Antonyms: tenant, lessee
- Hyponyms: sublessor, underlessor, sublandlord, underlandlord, subletter, underletter, (informal) subleaser, underleaser
- 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
- Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie,
Then to haue this difference in degrees:
The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees.
So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]
- (chiefly British) The owner or manager of a public house.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 102:
- When asked to explain why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar windows.
- (surfing, slang, with "the") A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
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Translations
person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo
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owner or manager of a public house
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See also
- lessor
- rentier
- Rachmanism
- tenant
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