Meanings
plural landladies
- A female landlord.
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 1911 more example
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
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian хазя́йка, хаза́йка
- хазя́йка (hazjájka)female landlord
- хаза́йка (hazájka)female landlord
- ханджи́йка (handžíjka)female landlord
Catalan mestressa
- mestressafemale landlord
Dutch hospita
- hospitafemale landlord
Finnish vuokraemäntä, vuokranantaja
- vuokraemäntäfemale landlord
- vuokranantajafemale landlord
French propriétaire
- propriétairefemale landlord
German Vermieterin, Hauswirtin
- Vermieterinfemale landlord
- Hauswirtinfemale landlord
Greek σπιτονοικοκυρά
- σπιτονοικοκυρά (spitonoikokyrá)female landlord
Irish bantiarna talún
- bantiarna talúnfemale landlord
Latvian saimniece
- saimniecefemale landlord
Russian хозя́йка, домовладе́лица
- хозя́йка (xozjájka)female landlord
- домовладе́лица (domovladélica)female landlord
Spanish arredataria, casera
- arredatariafemale landlord
- caserafemale landlord
- terratenientefemale landlord
Swedish hyresvärdinna
- hyresvärdinnafemale landlord
Ukrainian господи́ня, хазя́йка
- господи́ня (hospodýnja)female landlord
- хазя́йка (xazjájka)female landlord
- домовла́сниця (domovlásnycja)female landlord
Cite this entry
landlady. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landlady
“landlady.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/landlady. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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