landlady en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/ (UK, US)
Etymology
From land + lady.
Meanings
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A female landlord.
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: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.
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| landladies | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (29)
bg хазя́йка (female landlord) · ga bantiarna talún (female landlord) · bo གནས་མོ (female landlord) · es casera (female landlord) · sv hyresvärdinna (female landlord) · fi vuokraemäntä (female landlord) · hy տանտիրուհի (female landlord) · uk домовла́сниця (female landlord) · de Vermieterin (female landlord) · es arredataria (female landlord) · fr propriétaire (female landlord) · ru хозя́йка (female landlord) · el σπιτονοικοκυρά (female landlord) · bg хаза́йка (female landlord) · es terrateniente (female landlord) · lv saimniece (female landlord) · sh стано̀да̄вка (female landlord) · de Hauswirtin (female landlord) · fi vuokranantaja (female landlord) · be дамаўла́снiца (female landlord) · uk хазя́йка (female landlord) · sh stanòdāvka (female landlord) · ru домовладе́лица (female landlord) · nl hospita (female landlord) · bg ханджи́йка (female landlord) · ca mestressa (female landlord) · mk станодавка (female landlord) · be гаспады́ня (female landlord) · uk господи́ня (female landlord)