Word Study
landlord
CIDE DICTIONARY
- The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants. [1913 Webster]
- The master of an inn or of any form of lodging house; as, the landlord collects the rents on the first of the month. [1913 Webster]"Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
landlord, n.
1 a man who lets land, a building, part of a building, etc., to a tenant.
2 a man who keeps a public house, boarding-house, or lodgings.
1 a man who lets land, a building, part of a building, etc., to a tenant.
2 a man who keeps a public house, boarding-house, or lodgings.
THESAURUS
landlord
beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, freeholder, host, hostess, householder, innkeeper, laird, landlady, landowner, lord, manager, master, mesne, mesne lord, mine host, mistress, owner, property owner, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, publican, receptionist, rentier, squire, titleholderROGET THESAURUS
landlord
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.For further exploring for "landlord" in Webster Dictionary Online