landlord

From Middle English londlord, from Old English landhlāford, equivalent to land +‎ lord. Cognate with Scots landlaird.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.lɔːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.lɔɹd/

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landlord (plural landlords)

1. 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

   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie,
     Then to haue this difference in degrees:
     The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees.
     So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]

2. (chiefly British) The owner or manager of a public house.
3. (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”

• (person who rents something): lessor
• (owner or manager of a public house): publican

• landlady

• lessor
• rentier
• Rachmanism
• tenant
• Absentee landlord on Wikipedia.Wikipedia