Landlady Meaning
/ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA female landlord.
Sentence Examples
This lady is Masagokan's landlady, Yoko Someha.
Our landlady is a real battle-axe!
Mrs Hudson, the landlady, she’s giving me a special deal.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ raised the rent and fixed the broken heater in the apartment.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
His friendly ____ told him that he could use the garden behind the house whenever he wanted to today.
Word Origin & History
From land + lady.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ raised the rent and fixed the broken heater in the apartment.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
His friendly ____ told him that he could use the garden behind the house whenever he wanted to today.