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English
Etymology
From Middle English londlord, from Old English landhlāford, equivalent to land + lord. Cognate with Scots landlaird.
Pronunciation
Noun
landlord (plural landlords)
- A person that leases real property; a lessor.
- Synonyms: lessor, lease provider, (informal) leaser
- Antonyms: tenant, lessee
- Hyponyms: sublessor, underlessor, sublandlord, underlandlord, subletter, underletter, (informal) subleaser, underleaser
- (chiefly British) The owner or manager of a public house.
- (surfing, slang, with "the") A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
2004, Drew Kampion, publisher's blurb for, Stories from the Surf – The Lost Coast:the lurking presence of “The Landlord”
Synonyms
- (person who rents something): lessor
- (owner or manager of a public house): publican
Derived terms
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Translations
person who owns and rents land such as a house, apartment, or condo
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- Arabic:
- Moroccan Arabic: مول الدار m (mūl ed-dār)
- Armenian: տանտեր (hy) (tanter)
- Belarusian: гаспада́р (be) m (haspadár), дамаўла́снiк m (damaŭlásnik)
- Bulgarian: хазя́ин (bg) m (hazjáin), ханджи́я m (handžíja), хаза́ин m (hazáin)
- Catalan: amo (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 房東／房东 (zh) (fángdōng), 東家／东家 (zh) (dōngjia), 地主 (zh) (dìzhǔ)
- Czech: pronajímatel (cs) m
- Danish: kromand c, krofatter c, gæstgiver c
- Dutch: huisbaas (nl) m
- Esperanto: termastro
- Faroese: góðseigari m
- Finnish: vuokranantaja (fi), vuokraisäntä
- French: propriétaire (fr) m or f
- Friulian: paron m
- German: Vermieter (de) m, Hauswirt (de) m
- Greek: σπιτονοικοκύρης (el) (spitonoikokýris)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: בַּעַל בַּיִת (he) m (bá'al báyit)
- Hungarian: háziúr (hu), bérbeadó (hu) sg
- Icelandic: leigusali (is) m
- Indonesian: tuan tanah (id) m
- Irish: tiarna talún m, tiarna talaimh m
- Italian: proprietario (it) m
- Japanese: 家主 (ja) (やぬし, yanushi), 地主 (ja) (じぬし, jinushi), 大家 (ja) (おおや, ōya)
- Korean: 집주인 (jipju'in), 주인(主人) (ko) (ju'in)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: مولکدار (mulkdar), خاوەن مولک (xawen mulk)
- Latvian: saimnieks m
- Lezgi: иеси (iesi)
- Macedonian: станодавец m (stanodavec)
- Maltese: sid m, sidt f
- Maori: kairēti
- Nepali: घरपेदि (gharapedi)
- Nivkh: ыс (əs), ызӈ (əzŋ)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: utleier m
- Old English: landhlāford m
- Persian: صاحبخانه (fa) (sâhebxâne)
- Polish: właściciel (pl) m (mieszkania), wynajmujący m
- Portuguese: senhorio (pt) m, proprietário (pt) m
- Romanian: gazdă (ro) f
- Russian: (квартиры, дома) хозя́ин (ru) (xozjáin), домовладе́лец (ru) m (domovladélec), арендода́тель (ru) m (arendodátelʹ), владе́лец (ru) m (vladélec)
- Scots: laird
- Scottish Gaelic: uachdaran m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: станода́вац m
- Roman: stanodávac (sh) m
- Spanish: arrendador m, casero (es) m
- Swedish: hyresvärd (sv) c
- Tibetan: ཁང་བདག (khang bdag), ས་བདག (sa bdag)
- Turkish: ev sahibi (tr), mülk sahibi
- Ukrainian: хазя́їн m (xazjájin), домовла́сник m (domovlásnyk)
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- Vietnamese: chủ nhà (vi), địa chủ
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- Welsh: landlord m
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- Zazaki: wayırê keyiwêrê mılki
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owner or manager of a public house
See also
Absentee landlord on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 