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单词 landlord
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landlordn.

Brit. /ˈlan(d)lɔːd/, U.S. /ˈlæn(d)ˌlɔrd/
Forms: Also 1500s land(i)slord.
Etymology: < land n.1 + lord n. and int.Old English had landhláford, but the modern word is a new formation.
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.
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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).
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