Other forms: landlords
A landlord is the person who owns the flat you pay to live in. A private landlord, the landlord raised the rent, a good landlord.
The duties run both ways and are set by statute: repairs, safety checks and deposit protection are the landlord's, and most disputes are about repairs. A landlord is also the keeper of a pub. Note that the compound is land plus lord and is Old English.
1nounlandlordThe person who owns a property let to tenants.
“Our landlord has promised to fix the broken heating by Friday.”
2nounkeeperThe keeper of a pub.
“The landlord pulled us two pints and asked if we wanted food.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
landlord is an owner.
Also accepted in games: landlady
Old English landhlaford is land plus lord. Lord itself means loaf-keeper, from hlaf, a loaf, plus weard, a guardian.
Old English
landhlāford
Middle English
londlord
English, today
landlord
From Middle English londlord, landlorde, from Old English landhlāford, equivalent to land + lord. Cognate with Scots landlaird, Middle Low German lantlord (“homeowner, landlord”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA