landlord

The word “landlord” means a person or company that owns property and rents it out to tenants. In plain terms, someone who owns a property and lets other people live in it for rent, or who runs a pub.

“Landlord” is pronounced LAND-lawd (/ˈlæn(d).lɔɹd/ in IPA).

Here is “landlord” used in a sentence: “Our landlord fixed the boiler within a day of us reporting it.”

“Landlord” is a noun.

The word “landlord” comes from Old English. From Old English landhlaford, from land + lord — originally meaning the lord who owned the land.

“Landlord” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the B1 level.

“Landlord” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: a person or company that owns property and rents it out to tenants.

A landlord owns property and rents it out, while a tenant is the person who pays rent to live in or use that property. In short, the landlord provides the property and the tenant occupies it.

Both own or manage rented property, but "landlord" traditionally refers to a man and is also used as a gender-neutral term, while "landlady" refers specifically to a woman. Either word can also mean the keeper of a pub or inn.

A landlord actually owns the rented property, whereas a property manager is hired to run it on the owner's behalf — collecting rent, arranging repairs, and dealing with tenants. A landlord may manage a property personally or employ a property manager to do it.