Lord
[lɔːd] or [lɔrd]
Definition
(noun.) a titled peer of the realm.
(verb.) make a lord of someone.
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Definition
(n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
(n.) One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
(n.) A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.
(n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.
(n.) A husband.
(n.) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
(n.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
(n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
(v. t.) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
(v. t.) To rule or preside over as a lord.
(v. i.) To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb.
Checker: Valerie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Master, ruler, governor, sovereign, king.[2]. Noble, nobleman, peer.[3]. Husband.[4]. God, Jehovah.
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Definition
n. a master: a superior: a husband: a ruler: the proprietor of a manor: a baron: a peer of the realm: the son of a duke or marquis or the eldest son of an earl: a bishop esp. if a member of parliament: (B.) the Supreme Being Jehovah (when printed in capitals): a name also applied to Christ.—v.t. to raise to the peerage.—v.i. to act the lord: to tyrannise.—ns. Lord′liness; Lord′ling a little lord: a would-be lord—also Lord′ing Lord′kin.—adj. Lord′ly like becoming or pertaining to a lord: dignified: haughty: tyrannical—also adv.—ns. Lordol′atry excessive worship of nobility; Lords′-and-lā′dies a popular name for the common arum (q.v.); Lord's′-day the first day of the week; Lord′ship state or condition of being a lord: the territory belonging to a lord: dominion: authority; Lord's′-sup′per the sacrament of the communion instituted at our Lord's last supper.—Lord-lieutenant of a county (see Lieutenant); Lord-lieutenant Of Ireland a viceroy or deputy of the sovereign to whom the government of Ireland is nominally committed; Lord of misrule (see Misrule); Lords of Session the judges of the Scotch Court of Session; Lords Ordinary the five judges forming the outer house of the Court of Session; Lords spiritual the archbishops and bishops in the House of Lords—opp. to Lords temporal the peers proper.—House of Lords the upper house in the two branches of the British parliament consisting of the lords spiritual and temporal.
Checker: Wade
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In American society an English tourist above the state of a costermonger as lord 'Aberdasher Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as 'Sir as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. The word Lord ' is sometimes used also as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather flattery than true reverence.
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Examples
- O, my good Lord! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And thus young Lord Greystoke took the first step toward the goal which he had set--the finding of other white men like himself. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Once it was so; now is man lord of the creation? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I had said to Compeyson that I'd smash that face of his, and I swore Lord smash mine! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Some short time after my sister Sophia's marriage she received from Lord Deerhurst, half a year of the annuity he had made her. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No, say my lords the mob, you sha'n't have that. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I should speak of foreign dancers, and the West End of London, and May Fair, and lords and ladies and honourables. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I should rather say her thoughts were far away from here, with lords and ladies she'll never know, and mansions she'll never see again. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Monseigneur in Town Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- After which it embarked upon a long-impending struggle with the persistently imperialist House of Lords. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And in London another Lord Greystoke was speaking to HIS kind in the House of Lords, but none trembled at the sound of his soft voice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I never can bear to be 'lorded over', so that settled my mind, and I did it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Tamara