Pronunciation
Noun
landlord (plural landlords)
- A person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo.
- (chiefly UK) The owner or manager of a public house.
- (surfing, slang, with “the”) A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
- publisher's blurb for Stories from the Surf – The Lost Coast by Drew Kampion [1]
- 2004: the lurking presence of “The Landlord”
Synonyms
- (owner or manager of a public house): publican
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Translations
person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo
- Armenian: տանուտեր (hy) (tanuter)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 房東 (cmn), 房东 (cmn) (fángdōng), 東家 (cmn), 东家 (cmn) (dōngjia), 地主 (cmn) (dìzhǔ)
- Czech: pronajímatel (cs) m
- Dutch: huisbaas (nl) m
- Esperanto: termastro (eo)
- Finnish: vuokranantaja (fi), vuokraisäntä (fi)
- French: propriétaire (fr) m and f
- German: Vermieter (de) m, Hauswirt (de) m
- Greek: σπιτονοικοκύρης (el) (spitonoikokýris)
- Hungarian: háziúr (hu)
- Japanese: 家主 (ja) (やぬし, yanushi), 地主 (ja) (じぬし, jinushi), 大家 (ja) (おおや, ōya)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: مولکدار, خاوهن مولک
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- Latvian: saimnieks (lv) m, saimniece (lv) f
- Maltese: sid (mt) m, sidt (mt) f
- Norwegian: utleier (no) m
- Persian: صاحبخانه (fa) (sâhebxâne)
- Portuguese: senhorio (pt) m
- Russian: (квартиры, дома) хозяин (ru) (xozjáin), хозяйка (ru) (xozjájka) f, домовладелец (ru) (domovladélec) m, арендодатель (ru) (arendodátel') m, владелец (ru) (vladélec) m
- Scots: laird
- Scottish Gaelic: uachdaran (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian: stanodavac (sh)
- Spanish: casero (es) m, casera (es) f, arrendador (es) m, arrendadora (es) f
- Swedish: hyresvärd (sv) c
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owner or manager of a public house