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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

landlord

/ˈlæn(d).lɔɹd/

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What does landlord mean?

noun

  1. A person that leases real property; a lessor.
  2. The owner or manager of a public house.
  3. (slang) A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
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verb

  1. (rare) To lease real property; to act as a lessor.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈlæn(d).lɔɹd/

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Among the dishes served up to him, the landlord especially recommended a certain giblet of “native rabbit,” on which he prided himself.
Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty DaysTranslated by George M. (George Makepeace) TowleProject Gutenberg ebook #103
“There are tremendous sarcasms against a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents, and makes no returns.”
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
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White people are more in evidence here, and farmer and hired labor replace to some extent the absentee landlord and rack-rented tenant.
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe Souls of Black FolkProject Gutenberg ebook #408
At last both got up and left the room, the landlord finishing his glass of whiskey and water before he went away.
George BorrowWild Wales: Its People, Language and SceneryProject Gutenberg ebook #648
When we retired to our chamber, I asked Marion why he had not given that brute, our landlord, a proper set down.
M. L. (Mason Locke) WeemsThe Life of General Francis MarionProject Gutenberg ebook #846