landlady

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A female landlord.

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   a landlord who is a woman

Etymology

From land + lady.