What does landlady mean?
Word: Landlady
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Landlady means a woman who owns a house, flat or room and lets other people live there in return for rent.
Synonyms: owner
Antonyms: tenant
How do you spell landlady?
Syllables: land - la - dy
Tricky part: It is written as one word, with no space or hyphen. Said quickly, the d at the join slips out of hearing, so pupils often write lanlady.
Watch out for: lanlady, landleady, landladdy
Memory tip: Say it slowly once, with a tiny pause at the join. That pause lets you hear the d that fast speech swallows, and once you have heard it, it stays on the page.
Landlady in a sentence
Example 1: Our landlady lives on the ground floor.
Example 2: Mumma pays the rent to the landlady on the first of every month.
Example 3: The landlady fixed the leaking tap herself.
Fun Fact
In Britain the woman who runs a pub or an inn has long been called the landlady, even when she does not own the building.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) landledy
b) lendlady
c) landlady
d) landlaidy
Show answer
c) landlady. The first half has an a, not an e, and the second half has one a and no i.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
dalnaldy
a) landylad
b) landaldy
c) landlayd
d) landlady
Show answer
d) landlady. Look for the ground a house stands on; what is left is a polite word for a woman.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The new landladie asked us to keep the stairs clean.
a) clean
b) asked
c) landladie
d) stairs
Show answer
c) landladie. Like lady on its own, the word ends in a plain y.
Word Connection
Select the masculine form of the word:
landlady
a) lordlady
b) landlord
c) landsir
d) landgent
Show answer
b) landlord. A man who rents out a flat is a landlord, the partner word of landlady.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Mrs Rao is a landlady. What might she do this week?
a) mark the Class 3 maths tests
b) show an empty flat to a family
c) drive the morning school bus
d) fly a plane from Delhi to Goa
Show answer
b) show an empty flat to a family
2. Before a family moves into a flat, the landlady usually ____.
a) buys their furniture
b) hands them the keys
c) cooks them a dinner
d) takes them on holiday
Show answer
b) hands them the keys
