Landlord

Definition: Landlord

Landlord

Noun

1. A landowner who leases to others.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "landlord" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Note: Landlord \Land"lord`\, noun. [See Land, and Lord.]. (references)

Finance

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Possessor

Land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady, slumlord; lord of the manor, lord paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord; planter.

Crosswords: Landlord

Of course the fact of the matter was he had killed his landlord less than an hour before we met him. He was even wearing the guy's ring (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.)

I'm getting complaints from the landlord about the gun battles in the hall, and the bombs in the lobby, and the knife fights in the elevator (Get Smart; writing credit: Shinichi Sekizawa; Futaro Yamada)

The landlord say your rent is late ("Don't Worry Be Happy"; performing artist: Bobby McFerrin)

The Landlord (1970)

Landlord Hey (1966)

Love Your Landlord (1944)

Kid-ing the Landlord (1920)

Felix the Landlord (1920)

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Books

• Secrets of a Millionaire Landlord (reference)

• Shakespeare's Landlord (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Landlord Tenant Law Bulletin (reference)

• Landlord Vs Tenant-nyc (reference)

• Woodfall Landlord & Tenant (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Landlord (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Kill My Landlord (reference)

• Singing for the Landlord (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Sylvester Garring, thirty-one year old tenant of an absentee landlord, chopping wood. Near Fowler, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

This one-room hut built of rough lumber over the chassis of an abandoned Ford truck was the housing provided by a landlord for an illiterate wood-cutter, with a wife and seven children. Found on U.S. Route 70 between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee, near T. Credit: Library of Congress.

Barns and cows on Frank Armstrong's farm near Marseilles, Illinois. Landlord intends to replace these barns. Credit: Library of Congress.

House on Frank Armstrong's farm near Marseilles, Illinois. Armstrong rents one hundred twenty acre farm from landlord who is interested in building up his farm. This farmhouse has asbestos siding. Credit: Library of Congress.

August Feck and a load of soybean hay. Feck's three hundred tewnty acre farm near Templeton, Indiana, is owned by an absentee landlord who lives in Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

White sharecropper's home. He drives tractors for his present landlord for seventy-five cents a day near Cleveland, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sharecrop farm, Gaffney, South Carolina. In 1936 he raised seven bales on thirteen acres, half of which went to his landlord. Credit: Library of Congress.

Terraced fields of sharecropper. In 1936 he made seven bales of cotton, half of which went to his landlord. Near Gaffney, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Compton, Negro sharecropper, and his wife stripping and grading tobacco. He has a Negro landlord who lives in Mebane, part of a very prosperous Negro settlement. Near Carr, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, September 28, 1939, number four. Credit: Library of Congress.

The New landlord. Credit: Library of Congress.

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As the parson has ever gone band in hand with the landlord, so has Clerical Socialism with Feudal Socialism. (reference)

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The last landlord of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, not even knowing the tradition, had the post painted blue

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Civil Liberties

Kazakhstan

When the authorities arrived, the landlord told the participants they had to leave and hold the congress at another location. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

There were no arrests in the October 2000 death of Manuel Souza Neto, a leader of the MST. Members of the MST reported that landowners had sent death threats to the victim, and a landlord was suspected in his death. (references)

Minorities

Fiji

A number of agricultural landlord and tenant agreement leases have expired, and many more will expire in the next few years. (references)

Travel

Netherlands

A municipal housing permit is required to occupy certain houses and apartments, and the landlord can advise you on this. (references)

Qatar

In recent years, the lease contract in some cases has included a provision for the Qatari landlord to meet the cost of basic maintenance. (references)

Egypt

Egyptian law allows a landlord to charge higher rents if apartments are "furnished;" therefore, almost all rental units are of this type. (references)

Women

India

In June a Dalit women allegedly was paraded nude in a Karnataka village following a land dispute with a village landlord. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

The landlord reportedly had forced them to work without wages for several years. (references)

Pakistan

For example, the Sindh Tenancy Act empowers a landlord to detain an indebted tenant, or a tenant's family member if the tenant flees, until the debt is repaid. (references)

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Expressions using "landlord": absentee landlord ♦ deputy landlord. Additional references.

Beginning with "landlord": landlord-citizens, landlord-entrepreneurs, landlord-influence, landlord-led, landlord-peasants, landlord-tenant.

Ending with "landlord": anti-landlord, bourgeois-landlord, ex-landlord, pick-a-landlord, seller-landlord, semi-landlord.

Albanian

qiradhënës (lessor), pronar (boss, holder, manager, master, owner, proprietary, proprietor), bujtinar (host, innkeeper). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مدير (administrator, chief, director, executive, gaffer, manager, patron, provost, reeve), ‏صاحب الفندق (hosteler), ‏صاحب المكان. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдържател на пансион, ханджия (hosteler, innkeeper, padrone, publican), хазаин, наемодател (lessor, letter), земевладелец (laird, landowner, squire). (various references)

Chinese 

房東 , 房东. (various references)

Czech

statkář (land-holder, landowner, squire), hostinský (innkeeper), domácí pán. (various references)

Danish

jordejer (estate owner, ground landlord, land holder, landed proprietor, landowner), grundejer (estate owner, ground landlord, land holder, landed proprietor, landowner). (various references)

Dutch

logementhouder (host, innkeeper), waard (beloved, dear, expensive, host, innkeeper, lovely, valuable, worth), herbergier (host, innkeeper), eigenaar (owner). (various references)

Esperanto

gastejestro (host, innkeeper). (various references)

Farsi 

ملاک (Criterion, Document, Evidence, Landowner, Lord, Proprietor), موجر (Lessor, Renter), مالک (Angel, Have, Lord, Owner, Possessor, Proprietor), صاحبخانه (Host). (various references)

Finnish

vuokraisäntä, vuokraaja (lessee, tenant), talonisäntä (farmer, peasant proprietor), isäntä (boss, employer, farmer, head of the house, host, master). (various references)

French

propriétaire (landlady). (various references)

German

vermieter (hirer, lessor, renter), Wirt (boss, host, innkeeper, master, publican), hauswirt, Hausbesitzer (homeowner, landlords, occupier of the house, squatter). (various references)

Greek 

σπιτονοικοκύρησ, νοικοκύρης, οικοδεσπότησ (host). (various references)

Hebrew 

משכיר (lessor, renter), בעל אחוז�" (laird, landed gentleman, landowner, squire), בעל בית (boss, householder, houseowner). (various references)

Hungarian

háziúr (host). (various references)

Italian

proprietario (holder, homeownership, landowner, owner, property owner, proprietor). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

地主 , 亭主 (host, husband, innkeeper, master), 主人 (employer, head, host, master, one's husband). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおやさ�" (landlady), おおや (landlady), しゅくしゅ (host, innkeeper), しゅじ�" (employer, head, host, master, one's husband), さはいに�" (real estate agent), かしぬし (creditor, lender), か�"りしゃ (manager, superintendent, warden), いえぬし, あるじ (employer, head, host, master, one's husband), やぬし, やどぬし (host, innkeeper), じぬし, ていしゅ (bow, host, husband, innkeeper, master). (various references)

Korean 

땅임자. (various references)

Manx

oasteyr (hotelier, innkeeper, licensed victualler, publican), oasteyder (innkeeper, licensed victualler, publican), fer thie (family man, householder, housekeeper), fer oast (innkeeper), fer aaghtagh, chiarn thallooin (ground landlord, squire). (various references)

Norwegian

vert (host). (various references)

Pig Latin

andlordlay.(various references)

Portuguese

senhorio (ownership), proprietário de terras (laird, landholder, landowner), estalajadeiro (host, innkeeper), arrendador (lessor). (various references)

Romanian

proprietar funciar, proprietar de pensiune, proprietar de pãmânt (landowner), proprietar (holder, Lord, master, owner, proprietor), moşier (laird, landed proprietor, renter, squire), hangiu (host, innkeeper, licensed victualler), gazdã (entertainer, host, hostess, landlady, owner), birtaş. (various references)

Russian 

хозяин квартиры, хозяин (boss, host, master, proprietor, shipmaster), владелец дома, помещик (laird). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vlasnik stana, krčmar (innkeeper, licensee, publican, saloonkeeper, sutler, victualler), gazda (boss, housefather, housekeeper, laird, owner, proprietor). (various references)

Spanish

casero (domestic, home, homely, homemade, home-made, shirt-sleeve, shirt-sleeved). (various references)

Sranan

warti (host, innkeeper). (various references)

Swedish

värd (host, innkeeper, worth, worthy), jordägare (landowner), hyresvärd (lessor, renter). (various references)

Turkish

mülk sahibi (freeholder, landholder, proprietor, zemindar), kiraya veren (landlady, leaser, owner, renter), evsahibi, ev sahibi (host, householder, houseowner, landlady), arazi sahibi (Franklin, landed, landed gentleman, landed proprietor, landowner, the landed interest). (various references)

Ukrainian

хазяїн готелю (host, hotelier), лендлорд, домовласник (homeowner, householder, housekeeper). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chủ khách sạn địa ch. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "landlord": landlordism, landlordisms, landlords. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Landlord" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: landlor, lanlord, Lyndford. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: dollar, ladron, lardon.

-3 letters: adorn, aldol, allod, droll, llano, loral, loran, nodal, radon.

-4 letters: dado, darn, doll, dona, land, lard, load, loan, lord, lorn, nard, olla, orad, oral, rand, road, roan, roll.

-5 letters: add, ado, all, and, dad, dal, dol, don, dor, lad, lar, nod, nor, oar, odd, old, ora, rad, ran, rod.

+1 letter: landlords.

+2 letters: landholder.

+3 letters: landholders, landlordism.

+4 letters: candleholder, landlordisms.

+5 letters: candleholders, dendrological.