Landlady
Equivalents
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العربيةصاحبة الملك
Беларускаягаспадыня
བོད་སྐད།གནས་མོ
Bosanskidomaći
Catalàmestressa
Češtinadomácí
Gàidhligbean an taighe
Hrvatskidomaći
Հայերենտանտիրուհի
Latviešusaimniece
Nederlandshospita
Polskigospodyni
Српскиdomaći
Svenskahyresvärdinna
Tiếng Việtbà chủ
Examples
“In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end⟳ of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.”
“Yet Clacton, like⟳ every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive⟳ on Saturday before lunch and leave⟳ on Saturday after breakfast.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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