Definition of "landlady" []

• A woman who owns and rents land, buildings, or dwelling units. (noun)
• A woman who runs a rooming house or an inn; an innkeeper. (noun)

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• "The other main character in the book apart from the murderer and his landlady is the city of London in the Noughties; socially and ethnically mixed, but on edge and easily fractured."
• "On Thursday night she complained of shortness of breath, and finding she did not get better she called her landlady."
• "Keep your head down, the landlady is looking at us."