Word Meanings - PROPRIETOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROPRIETOR)

• Master
• Lord
• ruler
• governor
• owner
• possessor
• proprietor
• teacher
• professor
• adept
• chief
• Occupant
• Owner
• resident
• tenant
• occupier
• Proprietor

Related words: (words related to PROPRIETOR)

• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• GOVERNORSHIP
  The office of a governor.
• PROPRIETOR
  One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.
• RESIDENTIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade. 2. Residing; residentiary.
• RESIDENTIARYSHIP
  The office or condition of a residentiary.
• PROFESSOR
  1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors
• OWNERLESS
  Without an owner.
• PROFESSORSHIP
  The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton.
• ADEPTIST
  A skilled alchemist.
• OCCUPANT
  1. One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing. Note: This word, in law, sometimes signifies one who takes the first possession of a thing that has no owner. 2. A prostitute.
• ADEPT
  One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• BANDMASTER
  The conductor of a musical band.
• ENKERCHIEFED
  Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.