landlady

English

Etymology

From land +‎ lady.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlændˌleɪ.di/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

landlady (plural landladies)

1. A female landlord.
   • 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 Maiden), pages 40–41:

     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 retreat.

   • 1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191:

     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.

Related terms

• old lady

 

Translations

female landlord

• Armenian: տանտիրուհի (hy) (tantiruhi)
• Belarusian: гаспады́ня f (haspadýnja), дамаўла́снiца f (damaŭlásnica)
• Bulgarian: хазя́йка f (hazjájka), хаза́йка f (hazájka), ханджи́йка f (handžíjka)
• Catalan: mestressa (ca) f
• Dutch: hospita (nl) f
• Finnish: vuokraemäntä, vuokranantaja (fi)
• French: (both male and female) propriétaire (fr) m or f
• German: Vermieterin (de) f, Hauswirtin (de) f
• Greek: σπιτονοικοκυρά (el) f (spitonoikokyrá)
• Irish: bantiarna talún m
• Latvian: saimniece f
• Macedonian: станодавка f (stanodavka)
• Russian: хозя́йка (ru) f (xozjájka), домовладе́лица (ru) f (domovladélica)
• Spanish: arredataria f, casera (es) f, terrateniente (es) f (la)
• Swedish: hyresvärdinna (sv) c
• Tibetan: གནས་མོ (gnas mo)
• Ukrainian: господи́ня f (hospodýnja), хазя́йка f (xazjájka), домовла́сниця f (domovlásnycja)