Definition of lord Lord

/lɔˈɹd/ - [lord] - Lord

We found 29 definitions of lord from 8 different sources.

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Noun
lord - a titled peer of the realm
  noble, nobleman
  noblewoman, peeress, lady a woman of the peerage in Britain
  male aristocrat a man who is an aristocrat
  armiger a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms
  baron a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"
  burgrave the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries
  count the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours"
  duke a British peer of the highest rank
  grandee a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal
  margrave a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess)
  marquess, marquis a British peer ranking below a duke and above an earl
  mesne lord a feudal lord who was lord to his own tenants on land held from a superior lord
  milord a term of address for an English lord
  palsgrave, palatine either of two irregularly shaped bones that form the back of the hard palate and helps to form the nasal cavity and the floor of the orbits
  peer a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
  sire male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse
  thane a man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land)
  viscount a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron
lord - a person who has general authority over others
  overlord, master
  swayer, ruler a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe"
lord - terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
  Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
  blessed trinity, holy trinity, sacred trinity, trinity the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead

Verb

lords, lording, lorded  

lord - make a lord of someone
  ennoble, entitle, gentle give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • lord (n.)
    A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
  • lord (n.)
    One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
  • lord (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.
  • lord (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.
  • lord (n.)
    A husband.
  • lord (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.
  • lord (n.)
    The Supreme Being; Jehovah.
  • lord (n.)
    The Savior; Jesus Christ.
  • lord (v. t.)
    To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.
  • lord (v. t.)
    To rule or preside over as a lord.
  • 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.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • lord
    The Superior Being, the Creator, the Spirit because of which and in whom everything is, as He is being named by monotheists, mostly Jews and Christians.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • lord
    lawrd, 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. [M. E. loverd, laverd—A.S. hláford—hláf, a loaf, bread, weard, warder.]

Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅

  • lord
    A crooked or hump-backed man. These unhappy people afford great scope for vulgar raillery; such as, 'Did you come straight from home? if so, you have got confoundedly bent by the way.' 'Don't abuse the gemman,' adds a by-stander, 'he has been grossly insulted already; don't you see his back's up?' Or someone asks him if the show is behind; 'because I see,' adds he, 'you have the drum at your back.' Another piece of vulgar wit is let loose on a deformed person: If met by a party of soldiers on their march, one of them observes that that gentleman is on his march too, for he has got his knapsack at his back. It is said in the British Apollo, that the title of lord was first given to deformed persons in the reign of Richard III. from several persons labouring under that misfortune being created peers by him; but it is more probably derived from the Greek word [GREEK: lordos], crooked.

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  • A Lord (Laird in some Scottish contexts) is a person who has power and authority. Women will usually (but not universally) take the title 'Lady' instead of Laird or Lord. But there is an example of a female Lord: "Lord of Mann", the ruler of the Isle of Man.

    The word actually comes from the Old English forms for "loaf" (bread) and "ward" (used to mean "protector", although today it means "one who is protected"). So a "lord" or "loaf ward" was originally "the one who protected the loaf".

    In a religious context, The Lord means God, mainly by the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity).

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  • lord, verb, present, 1st person singular of lord (infinitive).
  • lord, verb (infinitive).
  • lord, noun, singular of lords.

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