Landlady

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  • noun. A woman who owns and rents land, buildings, or dwelling units.
  • noun. A woman who runs a rooming house or an inn; an innkeeper.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A woman who owns houses or lands occupied by tenants.
  • noun. The wife of a squire or proprietor.
  • noun. The mistress of an inn or of a lodging-house or boarding-house.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.
  • noun. The mistress of an inn or lodging house.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Female landlord
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a landlord who is a woman
  • Word Usage
    "The other main character in the book apart from the murderer and his landlady is the city of London in the Noughties; socially and ethnically mixed, but on edge and easily fractured."
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