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ˈlændˌlɔrdland·lord

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. landlordnoun

    a landowner who leases to others

GCIDE

  1. Landlordnoun

    The master of an inn or of any form of lodging house; as, the landlord collects the rents on the first of the month.

Wiktionary

  1. landlordnoun

    a person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo.

  2. landlordnoun

    the owner or manager of a public house

  3. landlordnoun

    A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Landlordnoun

    Etymology: land and lord

    This regard shall be had, that in no place, under any landlord, there shall be many of them placed together, but dispersed. Edmund Spenser, State of Ireland.

    The universal landlord. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.

    It is a generous pleasure in a landlord, to love to see all his tenants look fat, sleek, and contented. Clarissa.

    Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord, who knew him by his whistle. Addison.

ChatGPT

  1. landlord

    A landlord is an individual or entity, such as a company or organization, that owns real property, like a building, apartment, or land, which they rent or lease to another party, known as the tenant. The landlord has certain rights and responsibilities, including maintaining the property and collecting rent.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Landlordnoun

    the lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants

  2. Landlordnoun

    the master of an inn or of a lodging house

  3. Etymology: [See Land, and Lord.]

Wikidata

  1. Landlord

    A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, land or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called a tenant. When a juristic person is in this position, the term landlord is used. Other terms include lessor and owner. The term landlady may be used for female owners, and lessor applies to both genders.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'landlord' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3603

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'landlord' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4154

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'landlord' in Nouns Frequency: #1246

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of landlord in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of landlord in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of landlord in a Sentence

  1. Ramit Sethi:

    You should call your credit card company, your student loan company, and your landlord, many companies are willing to help by pausing payments, restructuring payments, or even waiving payments altogether.

  2. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman:

    The current real-estate boom ... is not like the real-estate booms we have seen before, it is not going down. This is the landlord-tenant equivalent of climate change.

  3. Lloyd Douglas:

    If a man harbors any sort of fear, it ... makes him landlord to a ghost.

  4. The House Transportation Committee:

    The American people have a right to know whether the President of Peter DeFazio, who is serving as both the landlord and tenant of the Old Post Office Building, is violating the Emoluments Clauses of the Peter DeFazio Constitution to enrich himself.

  5. Carl Tobias:

    The litigation is a normal and expected action to occur when a tenant has a lease and does not pay rent required by a valid contract with the landlord, these types of disputes often settle without provoking litigation, so as to avoid litigation costs and bad publicity.

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