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- [lawrd]
- /lɔrd/
- /lɔːd/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [lawrd]
- /lɔrd/
Definitions of lord word
- noun lord a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler. 1
- noun lord a person who exercises authority from property rights; an owner of land, houses, etc. 1
- noun lord a person who is a leader or has great influence in a chosen profession: the great lords of banking. 1
- noun lord a feudal superior; the proprietor of a manor. 1
- noun lord a titled nobleman or peer; a person whose ordinary appellation contains by courtesy the title Lord or some higher title. 1
- noun lord Lords, the Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal comprising the House of Lords. 1
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Origin of lord
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English lord, loverd, Old English hlāford, hlāfweard literally, loaf-keeper. See loaf1, ward
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Parts of speech for Lord
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
lord popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
lord usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for lord
noun lord
- commander — A commander is an officer in charge of a military operation or organization.
- liege — a city in E Belgium, on the Meuse River: one of the first cities attacked in World War I.
- aristocrat — An aristocrat is someone whose family has a high social rank, especially someone who has a title.
- captain — In the army, navy, and some other armed forces, a captain is an officer of middle rank.
- prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
verb lord
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- swagger — to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
- peacock — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- put on airs — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
interjection lord
- gosh — Used to express surprise or give emphasis.
- dear me — surprise
- goodness gracious — (Idiomatic) (euphemistic, dated) Oh my God.
- gee — to agree; get along.
- golly — Used to express surprise or delight.
Antonyms for lord
noun lord
- follower — a person or thing that follows.
- commoner — In countries which have a nobility, commoners are the people who are not members of the nobility.
- inferior — lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
- servant — a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
- milord — an English nobleman or gentleman (usually used as a term of address).
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