as in landlord
the owner or manager of an inn in Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn a taverner tells a series of tales in verse to a group of travelers

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Noun
  • The failure of a Skid Row landlord is the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for other homeless housing in Los Angeles, a report says.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2025
  • Why are her landlord and the town of Huntley still coddling her?
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • She has also recently been announced for the role of the evil innkeeper Madame Thénardier in Fred Cavayé’s upcoming adaptation of Les Miserables, alongside Benjamin Lavernhe as Monsieur Thénardier.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 May 2025
  • In many places the State Department has become little more than an innkeeper for other agencies.
    Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
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“Taverner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/taverner. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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