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LANDLORD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landowner who leases to others
Classified under:
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:
After a short pause, Mr Shepherd presumed to say—In all these cases, there are established usages which make everything plain and easy between landlord and tenant.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This was corroborated by his landlord, who had received by messenger the key of the house together with the rent due, in English money.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He went to the best inn, ordered himself handsome clothes, and then bade the landlord furnish him a room as handsome as possible.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“By the powers, Tom Morgan, it's as good for you!” exclaimed the landlord.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In such employments as these they were interrupted soon after breakfast the next day by the entrance of their landlord, who called to welcome them to Barton, and to offer them every accommodation from his own house and garden in which theirs might at present be deficient.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He then desired to know, What arts were practised in electing those whom I called commoners: whether a stranger, with a strong purse, might not influence the vulgar voters to choose him before their own landlord, or the most considerable gentleman in the neighbourhood?
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
We did not go very far along the road, for Holmes stopped the instant that the curve hid us from the landlord’s view.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Yes, Sir Charles,” answered the landlord; “the man is waiting below.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Or next month, or the next, or the next," her landlord said.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
