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landlady

/ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/

landlady noun: a female landlord.

Noun

landlady (plural landladies)

  1. 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...1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The...
    • Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191

landlady meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

landlady in Tamil

நிலக்கிழாள்

landlady in Urdu

مالکہ مکان, زمین دارنی

landlady in Malayalam

pub-owner, bar-keeper, hotel-keeper
സത്രം ഉടമസ്ഥ, സത്രം ഉടമസ്ഥൻ, സത്രയജമാനൻ, സത്രം നടത്തിപ്പുകാരൻ, വാടകവീട്ടുടമസ്ഥ, വാടകവീട്ടുടമസ്ഥൻ
proprietor, property owner, proprietress
ഭൂപ്രഭു, ഭൂവുടമ, ജന്മി, ഭൂസ്വത്തുകാരൻ, ഭൂസ്വാമി, വസ്തുഉടമസ്ഥ

landlady in Kannada

ಮನೆಯೊಡತಿ, ಯಜಮಾನಿ

Examples of landlady in a sentence

  • I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.
  • The landlady magicked up a large breakfast for us and our unexpected guest.
  • We lived off the Scotch eggs the landladies put out for late supper, after the show.

All 15 example sentences with landlady

Forms of landlady

plurallandladies

Plural of landlady: landladies

Origin of landlady

From land + lady.

Words formed from landlady

Questions about landlady

What does landlady mean?
Landlady means a female landlord.
What is landlady in Tamil?
Landlady in Tamil is நிலக்கிழாள். See Landlady meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is landlady?
Landlady is a noun.
How do you pronounce landlady?
Landlady is pronounced /ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/ (UK).
What is the plural of landlady?
The plural of landlady is landladies.

Words near landlady in the dictionary

  1. landish
  2. Landisville
  3. Landjam
  4. Landkey
  5. landladies
  6. landlady
  7. landlady's wig
  8. landladyhood
  9. landladyish
  10. landladyship
  11. landleaper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: landlady (page history and authors); landlady (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); landlady (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); landlady (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); landlady (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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