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Definition of 'lord'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lord
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; master or ruler.

2.  lord
a person who exercises authority from property rights; an owner of land, houses, etc.

3.  lord
a person who is a leader or has great influence in a profession:
the great lords of banking.

4.  lord
a feudal superior; the proprietor of a manor.

5.  lord
a titled nobleman or peer; a person whose ordinary appellation contains by courtesy the title Lord or some higher title.

6.  lord
Lords, the Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal comprising the House of Lords.

7.  lord
(cap.) (in Great Britain)

8.  lord
the title of certain high officials:
Lord Mayor of London.

9.  lord
the formally polite title of a bishop:
Lord Bishop of Durham.

10.  lord
the title informally substituted for marquis, earl, viscount, etc.

11.  lord
(cap.) the Supreme Being; God.

12.  lord
(cap.) Jesus Christ.

13.  lord
Archaic. husband.

14. (interj.) lord
(often cap.) (used in exclamatory phrases to express surprise, delight, dismay, etc.):
Lord, what a beautiful day!

15. (v.) lord
lord it, to behave arrogantly or imperiously:
to lord it over one's friends.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME lord, loverd, OE hlāford, hlāfweard lit., loaf-keeper. See loaf¹, ward)

Definition of 'lord'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

2. (noun) overlord, master, lord
a person who has general authority over others

3. (verb) Lord, noble, nobleman
a titled peer of the realm

4. (verb) lord
make a lord of someone

Definition of 'lord'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. lord
a man of high rank in the British social system
Lord Bingham

2. lord
Oh/Good Lord!
indicates frustration or surprise
Oh Lord, not you again!

Definition of 'lord'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) lord
a hump-backed person; -- so called sportively

2. (noun) lord
one who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor

3. (noun) lord
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

4. (noun) lord
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

5. (noun) lord
a husband

6. (noun) lord
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

7. (noun) lord
the Supreme Being; Jehovah

8. (noun) lord
the Savior; Jesus Christ

9. (verb) lord
to invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord

10. (verb) lord
to rule or preside over as a lord

11. (verb) lord
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

Translation of 'lord'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a master; a man or animal that has power over others or over an area The lion is lord of the jungle.
Afrikaans: meester	Arabic: سَيِّد	Bulgarian: господар
Brazilian: senhor	Czech: pán	German: der Herr
Danish: herre; hersker	Greek: κύριος, άρχοντας	Spanish: gran señor
Estonian: isand	Farsi: ارباب	Finnish: valtias
French: seigneur	Hebrew: אָדוֹן, שַׁלִיט	Hindi: अधिपति
Croatian: gospodar	Hungarian: úr	Indonesian: penguasa
Icelandic: herra	Italian: signore	Japanese: 支配者
Korean: 우두머리	Lithuanian: ðeimininkas, valdovas, vi	Latvian: kungs; valdnieks; pavēlni
Malay: raja	Dutch: heer	Norwegian: herre, hersker
Polish: pan	Persian: ،آقا ارباب	Pashto: مشر،لوى سړى
Portuguese: senhor	Romanian: stăpân, conducător	Russian: повелитель
Slovak: pán	Slovenian: gospodar	Serbian: gospodar
Swedish: herre, härskare	Thai: หัวหน้า	Turkish: hâkim, efendi
Taiwanese: 主人，大王	Ukrainian: володар; повелитель	Urdu: آقا، حاکم
Vietnamese: chúa tể	Chinese: 主人
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