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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Landlord \Land"lord'\, noun [See {Land}, and {Lord}.]
1. The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
2. The master of an inn or of any form of lodging house; as, the landlord collects the rents on the first of the month. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
landlord
noun: a landowner who leases to others
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "landlord": beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, freeholder, host, hostess, householder, innkeeper, laird, landlady, landowner, lord, manager, master, mesne, mesne lord, mine host, mistress, owner, property owner, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, publican, receptionist, rentier, squire, titleholder
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