All 3 Uses of
proprietor
in
The Great Gatsby
- It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead, when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.†
p. 25.3 *
- I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say: So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.†
p. 64.8
- After a moment the proprietor emerged from the interior of his establishment and gazed hollow-eyed at the car.†
p. 122.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(proprietor) the owner of a business
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, proprietor can reference someone with sole or partial ownership of anything -- such as a trademark.