Landlord

Definitions

1. A person that leases real property; a lessor.
2. The owner or manager of a public house.
   British
3. A shark, imagined as the owner of the surf to be avoided.
   slang, with-definite-article

Equivalents

Examples

“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 […]”

“When asked to explain⟳ why he became a landlord, he told the Archbishop of York it was so he could close⟳ the pub on Sundays, and suppress the profane language and singing that came through the bar windows.”

“the lurking presence of “The Landlord””

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