Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Landlord

Landlord , 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.
Upon our arrival at the inn, my companion fetched out the jolly landlord. — Addison