LANDLADY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does landlady mean? 

• LANDLADY (noun)
  The noun LANDLADY has 1 sense:

1. a landlord who is a woman

  Familiarity information: LANDLADY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANDLADY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlord who is a woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("landlady" is a kind of...):

landlord (a landowner who leases to others)

 Context examples 

Presently the landlady appeared with the tray, laid it down upon a chair beside the closed door, and then, treading heavily, departed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He then turned back and saluted the landlady once more with the utmost relish and satisfaction.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He carries some creature about with him in that box; about which the landlady seemed to be in considerable trepidation, for she had never seen an animal like it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I got on the coach the driver had not taken his seat, and I saw him talking with the landlady.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A year ago Godfrey Staunton lodged in London for a time and became passionately attached to his landlady’s daughter, whom he married.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He paid two dollars and a half a month rent for the small room he got from his Portuguese landlady, Maria Silva, a virago and a widow, hard working and harsher tempered, rearing her large brood of children somehow, and drowning her sorrow and fatigue at irregular intervals in a gallon of the thin, sour wine that she bought from the corner grocery and saloon for fifteen cents.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had seen too much of the world, to expect sudden or disinterested attachment anywhere, but her illness had proved to her that her landlady had a character to preserve, and would not use her ill; and she had been particularly fortunate in her nurse, as a sister of her landlady, a nurse by profession, and who had always a home in that house when unemployed, chanced to be at liberty just in time to attend her.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The landlady thought for a moment.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The landlady looked at him in a motherly way and shook her head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)