单词 | landlord |
释义 | landlordn. 1. a. Originally, a lord or owner of land; in recorded use applied only spec. to the person who lets land to a tenant. Hence (perhaps already in 16th cent.) in widened sense (as the correlative to tenant): A person of whom another person holds any tenement, whether a piece of land, a building or part of a building. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner landlorda1000 lordOE lairdc1379 mailerc1485 landman1562 heritor1597 landowner1742 land-proprietor1815 territorialist1845 the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > landlord landlorda1000 rentera1400 tenement mana1500 omee1859 a1000 in Earle Land Charters (1888) 376 Æt ælcum were ðe binnan ðam .xxx. hidan is gebyreð æfre se oðer fisc ðam landhlaforde. c1000 Laws of Edgar Suppl. c. 11 in Schmid Gesetze 196 Healde se land-hlaford þæt forstolene orf..oð þæt se agenfrigea þæt geacsige. 1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) 192 b I. 221 Le lessour, appelle ‘landlorde’. 1455–6 W. Gregory Chron. (Camden) 199 The Lombardys..toke grete old mancyons in Wynchester..and causyd the londe lordys to do grete coste in reparacyons. 1552 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 152 Suche rate as thei paye in yerely rent..to the landelordes therof. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 15 Would servauntes obey their masters..the tenaunt his landlorde. 1557 F. Seager Schoole of Vertue in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 354 Ye that be landlordes and haue housen to let. 1587 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 462/1 Þe landislordes and baillies vpoun quhais landis and in quhais Jurisdictioun þai duell. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F3 I am the landlord keeper of thy holds. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 113 Landlord of England art thou now, not King. View more context for this quotation 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iii. §1 His Landlord may dispossess him of all he hath upon displeasure. 1701 D. Defoe Orig. Power People in Misc. (1703) 157 If the King was universal Landlord, he ought to be universal Governor of Right. 1809 C. Lamb Let. 7 June in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 12 I have been turned out of my Chambers in the Temple by a Landlord who wanted them for himself. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 282 Six months notice to quit must be given by a landlord to his tenant at will. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 381 The doctrine was established that the King was the supreme landlord. 1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 92 The laws concerning landlord and tenant have been made by landlords. b. figurative (said of God.) ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] godeOE deityc1374 higher powerc1384 princec1384 divinityc1386 governorc1400 powerc1425 numen1495 fear1535 heaven1554 godheada1586 godhood1586 landlorda1635 supreme1643 supercelestial1652 supernal1661 universality1681 father1820 unspeakable1843 Molimo1861 Mlimo1897 superperson1907 somebody up there1972 sky fairy1997 a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 6 It wounded me the Land~lord of all times Should let long lives and leases to their crimes. 1676 W. Hubbard Happiness of People 59 It is no wonder if God our great Land-lord, layes his arrest upon our tillage. 2. a. In extended sense: The person in whose house one lodges or boards for payment; one's ‘host’. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [noun] > with temporary accommodation > provider of lodging harbingerc1175 lodger1533 landlord1692 1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 411 His landlords daughter testified that [etc.]. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 323 He new dressed himself, changing Cloaths with his Landlord. 1774 O. Goldsmith Retaliation 3 If our landlord supplies us with beef, and with fish. b. The master of an inn, an innkeeper. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > keeper of eating-house > [noun] hostc1290 taverner1340 hosteler1350 cookc1390 ostlera1400 goodman1430 innkeeperc1449 hosterc1503 hostler?a1505 tabler1569 tavern-keeper1611 ordinary keeper1644 cantinier1721 landlord1724 traiteur1751 tavern-man1755 restaurateur1793 restorator1796 restauranteur1837 restauranter1863 society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [noun] > with temporary accommodation > innkeeping > innkeeper or hotelier wifeOE hostc1290 hostessc1290 hosteler1350 innkeeperc1449 innholder1463 wardin1493 hosterc1503 hostler?a1505 landlady1654 landlord1724 hoteliera1738 aubergiste1766 roadsider1826 khanji1839 motelier1959 1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 7 Suppose you go to an Ale-House with that base Money, and the Landlord gives you a Quart for Four of these Half-Pence. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Trip to Scarborough i. i I suppose, sir, I must charge the landlord to be very particular where he stows this? 1870 Daily News 16 Apr. The word landlord is never used here [i.e. in New England] in its primary or English signification, and is applied only to the keeper of a tavern or boarding house. 3. A host or entertainer (in private). Chiefly Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > hospitality > hospitable person > [noun] > host harbingerc1175 hostelerc1300 host1303 entertainer1525 landlord1725 Amphitryon1807 feast-giver1820 hospitator1851 guester1890 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 71 Which their new Landlords took very kindly. 1858 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (1860) 1st Ser. 256 Persons still persist among us in calling the head of the family, or the host, the landlord. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 26 Not so satisfactory..as the confiding landlord expects it to be. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1845 Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Mag. 1 515 Judge-made law may be bad, but landlord-made law is worse. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad App. a 586 The landlord-apprentice serves as call-boy; then as under-waiter. 1882 A. R. Wallace Land Nationalisation (1902) 148 The chronic starvation of Ireland, and the landlord-made deserts of the Highlands. 1882 A. R. Wallace Land Nationalisation (1902) 126 The evils of landlord-made law. 1908 Daily Chron. 26 June 5/7 With an air of detachment, as though he were not addressing a landlord-ridden assembly. 1924 R. Graves Mock Beggar Hall 72 Waiting the landlord-absentee's return. 1959 Good Food Guide 383 Both landlord-chef and waiter are Spanish. 1963 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 May 350/5 The parasitic landlord-usurers had to be destroyed as a class. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1000 |
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