landlady

landlady

English

Etymology

land +‎ lady

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlændˌleɪ.di/

Noun

landlady (plural landladies)

1. A female landlord.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 13623666, 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.

Translations

female landlord

Armenian: տանտիրուհի (hy) (tantiruhi) 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 Irish: bantiarna talún m

Latvian: saimniece f Russian: хозя́йка (ru) f (xozjájka), домовладе́лица (ru) f (domovladélica) Spanish: arredataria f, casera f, terrateniente (es) f (la) Swedish: hyresvärdinna (sv) c Tibetan: གནས་མོ (gnas mo)