proprietor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=pri=e=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

proprietor, n. [For older proprietary: cf. F. propriétarie.].

 One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

proprietor, n. (fem. proprietress)
1 a holder of property.
2 the owner of a business etc., esp. of a hotel.

Derivative

proprietorial adj. proprietorially adv. proprietorship n.

THESAURUS

proprietor

beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, holder, householder, innkeeper, laird, landholder, landlady, landlord, landowner, licensee, lord, manager, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, owner, partner, possessor, property owner, proprietary, proprietress, proprietrix, publican, rentier, squire, titleholder

ROGET THESAURUS

proprietor

Possessor

N possessor, holder, occupant, occupier, tenant, person in possession, man in possession, renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee, zemindar, ryot, tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life, owner, proprietor, proprietress, proprietary, impropriator, master, mistress, lord, land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord, lord of the manor, lord paramount, heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord, planter, cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor, grantee, feoffee, releasee, relessee, devisee, legatee, legatary, trustee, holder of the legal estate, mortgagee, right owner, rightful owner, heir presumptive, heir apparent, heiress, inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix, reversioner, remainderman.