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landlady

/land-ley-dee/US // ˈlændˌleɪ di //UK // (ˈlændˌleɪdɪ) //

女房东,房东女士,房东太太,包租婆

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural land·la·dies.

    • : a woman who owns and leases an apartment, house, land, etc., to others.
    • : a woman who owns or runs an inn, rooming house, or boardinghouse.

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Examples

  • Three days later, the landlady finally called my mom to say, “I think something might be wrong with Lee.”

  • She had been sharing a ground-floor apartment with her 28-year-old son in Allerton, a working-class neighborhood in the Bronx, before her landlady pushed her out to make space for her grandchildren.

  • His landlady/sometime girlfriend sued him, saying that they had agreed to split the winnings.

  • The landlady had related the tragic history of the dead mother and the invalid aunt.

  • He returned to the hotel, and, eluding a gossip-seeking landlady, went up to his room.

  • The landlady also came tripping towards us, and invited us, in a very friendly manner, to spend the next Sunday with them.

  • When we returned to the Castle Inn, we found the landlady all attention and she spared no effort to contribute to our comfort.

  • The landlady, clad in a low-necked black dress with long sweeping train, was typical of many we saw in the old-country hotels.