landlord

«landlord» in Mova's school dictionary: a person or company that owns a house, flat or room and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a landlord, landlords)

meaning for a pupil

1) A landlord is a person or company that owns a house, flat or room and rents it to people for money. tree →

2) (UK, Ireland) A landlord is the man who runs a pub. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, families who rent pay rent to the landlord every week or month; the landlord should fix problems such as leaks. In maths, rent problems ask how much is paid in total: rent × number of months. In stories, a pub landlord serves drinks. Phrases: the landlord, pay the landlord, pub landlord.

examples

• We pay our rent to the landlord every month. tree →
• The landlord came to fix the broken boiler. tree →
• If the rent is £800 a month, the landlord gets £9600 a year. tree →
• The pub landlord rang the bell for last orders. (UK) tree →
• Our landlord said we could keep a cat. tree →
• The landlord owns three flats on our street. tree →
• The landlord agreed to the bargain. tree →

note

Countable noun. A woman can be called a landlady, though «landlord» is often used for anyone. The person who rents is a «tenant». In maths, a year has 12 months, so yearly rent = monthly rent × 12.

In the corpora

• Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.
• A landlord is allowed to raise the rent, usually with warning, and a rise leaves less money for other things.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «landlord» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.