landlady

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landlady

/ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/ UK, US

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From land + lady.

noun landladies

A female landlord. In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this

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noun female landlord

Español	arredataria, casera, terrateniente
Français	propriétaire
Deutsch	Vermieterin, Hauswirtin
Ελληνικά	σπιτονοικοκυρά spitonoikokyrá
Русский	хозя́йка xozjájka, домовладе́лица domovladélica

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@misc{landlady_2026,
  title = {landlady},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/landlady},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}