Landlord

English

Noun

Landlord (plural Landlords)

1. a person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo.
2. (chiefly UK) the owner or manager of a public house
3. (surfing, slang, with “the”) A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
   • publisher's blurb for Stories from the Surf – The Lost Coast by Drew Kampion [1]

     2004: the lurking presence of “The Landlord”

Synonyms

• (owner or manager of a public house): publican

Related terms

• landlady
• the landlord
• tenant

Derived terms

• landlordism
• landlordless

Adjectives for Landlord

absentee; lonely; liberal; grasping.

Thesaurus

beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, freeholder, host, hostess, householder, innkeeper, laird, landlady, landowner, lord, manager, master, mesne, mesne lord, mine host, mistress, owner, property owner, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, publican, receptionist, rentier, squire, titleholder

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈlænd.lɔːd/
• (US) IPA: /ˈlænd.lɔɹd/

Translations

person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo

Chinese: Mandarin: 房東 (zh), 房东 (zh) (fángdōng), 東家 (zh), 东家 (zh) (dōngjia), 地主 (zh) (dìzhǔ) Czech: pronajímatel (cs) m. Dutch: huisbaas (nl) m. Finnish: vuokranantaja, vuokraisäntä French: propriétaire (fr) m. and f. German: Vermieter (de) m., Hauswirt (de) m. Greek: σπιτονοικοκύρης (el) Japanese: 家主 (ja) (やぬし, yanushi), 地主 (ja) (じぬし, jinushi), 大家 (ja) (おおや, ōya) Kurdish: مولکدار, خاوه‌ن مولک

Maltese: sid m., sidt f. Norwegian: Utleier (no) Persian: صاحبخانه (fa) (sâhebxâne) Portuguese: senhorio (pt) m. Russian: (квартиры, дома) хозяин (ru) (xozjáin), хозяйка (ru) (xozjájka) f., домовладелец (ru) (domovladélec) m., арендодатель (ru) (arendodátel') m., владелец (ru) (vladélec) m. Scots: laird Scottish Gaelic: uachdaran (gd) m. Serbian: stanodavac Spanish: casero (es) m., casera (es) f. Swedish: hyresvärd (sv) c.

owner or manager of a public house

Czech: hospodský (cs) m. Dutch: huisbaas (nl) m. Finnish: omistaja (fi) French: patron (fr) m.

Kurdish: مولکدار Scottish Gaelic: fear an taighe (gd) m., òstair (gd) m. Serbian: stanodavac