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it contains "lord" which is a male term

I didn't think of that. I always thought of it as "lording over" something. As in she's the "lord of the land."

That said, a landlord and a property owner are not the same thing. Many (most?) apartment buildings are owned by one company and managed by another.



Apartment buildings yes, but most single family homes (where people use the term landlord the most I suspect) are usually owned by an identifiable individual.


It's parallel to "landlady"


nearest((lord) + (woman) - (man),excluding=[(lord)])==(lady)


A word2vec proof, I like that you took care to exclude the original word, it often comes up with a higher score than the intended target.


> As in she's the "lord of the land."

But she wouldn't be; she'd be the "lady of the land".


Queen Elizabeth II is the current Lord of Mann. And Dame Fiona Woolf was the Lord Mayor of London as was Mary Donaldson before her.


Yeah language isn't 100% consistent. You may have noticed Elizabeth isn't the King of England.




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