landlord

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person that leases real property; a lessor.

   Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie, Then to haue this difference in degrees: The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees. So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]

2. 2
   noun

   The owner or manager of a public house.

   When asked to explain why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar windows.

3. 3
   noun

   A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.

   the lurking presence of “The Landlord”

4. 4
   verb

   To lease real property; to act as a lessor.

   All kinds of "Dulishevskis" were "landlording" in Tisza's time, and have continued under the Communists.

5. 5
   noun

   a landowner who leases to others

Etymology

From Middle English londlord, landlorde, from Old English landhlāford, equivalent to land + lord. Cognate with Scots landlaird, Middle Low German lantlord (“homeowner, landlord”).