Landlady

Quick meaning: Landlady is a noun meaning A female landlord.

Meaning

A female landlord.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• landladies

Synonyms for landlady

Depending on context, synonyms include landlord.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include landlord, mistress, housekeeper, stepmother, homeowner, caretaker.

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