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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lord
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drunk as a lord (also drunk as a skunk) (= very drunk)
▪ He turned up one morning, drunk as a lord.
House of Lords
Lord's Prayer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dear
▪ She had been mad to come! Dear lord, one word from that dreadful old woman, and she was undone.
▪ Not he. Dear lord, no.
▪ No use thinking that she would never see Travis again. Dear lord, but it hurt.
drunk
▪ Then turned up one morning drunk as a lord.
feudal
▪ Additionally, some of the worker's surplus was seized by the feudal lord.
▪ People lived in small communities spread throughout the countryside, under the authority of feudal lords whose land they worked as tenants.
▪ They were also hired as soldiers by feudal lords.
▪ These rich feudal lords were required to spend six months a year in their palaces at Yedo.
▪ He had assumed his lordship like any other feudal lord.
▪ Occasionally a feudal lord reserved a wild patch of forest from destruction for his game hunting.
▪ The feudal lords - who could afford real glass - usually had it set directly into stone or metal.
▪ Once princes and feudal lords who wished to increase the productive wealth of their domains imported craftsmen as a matter of course.
good
▪ But good lord, you're in your fourth month.
▪ They had a reputation as healers, good lords who possessed the secrets of both heaven and earth.
▪ One obvious element was his willingness to work at being a good lord.
▪ I came here to be a good lord as well as the King's most loyal servant!
▪ Would she not tempt the best lord in the land to run away with her?
▪ As Gloucester's power grew, it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole.
great
▪ There were witches who healed children and cattle, wizards who worked great things for lords.
▪ One has to be a great lord in Sumatra to have a roast or boiled chicken...
▪ At the same time he was a great lord.
▪ The cuckolding of heiresses and the wives of great lords was considered the highest form of courtly love.
▪ Service to a king or a great lord was often the key to patronage and status.
▪ No armies marched the land, no great lords unfurled the banners of rebellion.
▪ It would do us far more honour if you could succeed in obtaining a post under some other great lord.
▪ Lynn was created by a Norman bishop, Boston by a great Breton lord almost simultaneously.
local
▪ Gloucester was simply not sufficiently involved in the region to maintain a large-scale connection against competition from local lords.
▪ The power of kings declined and the power of local feudal lords increased.
▪ Then and later, we know that local lords engaged in renewals of the money to make a fast profit.
young
▪ So the fox sat down by him and chatted until the young lord came back with a stag which he had shot.
▪ Next day while the young lord went hunting the fox kept watch.
▪ I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London.
▪ Later this rosebud spent a weekend at the stately home of a young lord.
▪ On either side of him stood his brothers and a collection of young lords.
▪ The young lord was overjoyed to see what a beautiful wife his friends had found for him.
■ NOUN
chancellor
▪ The study is an embarrassment for the lord chancellor, who insists that appointments are made purely on merit.
drug
▪ Mansions sprung up in the once poor agricultural center, and one drug lord walked its streets with gold-plated sandals.
▪ If convicted, the alleged drug lord could face several life sentences.
▪ To the casual eye, Juan Garcia Abrego seems like just another run-of-the-mill, alleged international drug lord.
▪ Most citizens of Juarez are somewhat jaded to routine newspaper accounts of killings by rival drug lords or dueling gang members.
law
▪ There has never been a female law lord.
▪ But the the law lords left her with exactly what the appeal court had given her.
▪ Lord Bingham's appointment is a departure from precedent-normally the second most senior law lord takes over as the senior.
▪ Ideally, it would be chaired by the law lord, Lord Radcliffe.
▪ After Nuremberg Oaksey found it difficult to adjust to the work of a law lord.
▪ If the law lords tell Lord Young to publish, he will breathe a sigh of relief and obey.
lieutenant
▪ And contact with royalty gives the lord lieutenants real influence.
▪ Admiral Bryson, an expert on guided weapons, was not of conventional lord lieutenant stock.
▪ More than one lord lieutenant told me almost apologetically of the number of supplicants who sought his intervention with the democratically-chosen authorities.
▪ Matheson was appointed lord lieutenant and sheriff principal of the county of Ross in 1866.
▪ The responsibilities of the lord lieutenant for raising the militia only disappeared in 1921.
▪ The lord lieutenants have used their association to act like any trade union, and lobbied for a government grant.
▪ The other duty of the lord lieutenant under Elizabeth was the appointment of justices of the peace.
mayor
▪ Often he is resignedly mutilated by sour aldermen, by painfully fat lord mayors, by put-upon railway porters.
▪ He was elected lord mayor of Liverpool for 1916-17 and became an alderman in 1921.
▪ In 1662-3 he served as lord mayor of London.
▪ Affidavits taken before the lord mayor, a personal friend of hers, indicate that public opinion was on her side.
■ VERB
become
▪ Appointed lord advocate and admitted to the Privy Council in 1951, he became lord justice-general and lord president in 1954.
serve
▪ But other local families are likely to have served both lords, among them the Musgraves of Edenhall.
▪ In 1662-3 he served as lord mayor of London.
▪ He served as lord lieutenant of the counties of Glamorgan and Bute from 1815 until his death.
▪ Another family to serve both lords was the Huddlestons of Millom on the Duddon estuary.
▪ The lord gave his vassal protection, and rewarded him; the vassal swore to serve his lord.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(Good) Lord!/Oh Lord!
▪ Good Lord, Tom! What are you doing?
Lord (only) knows
▪ Even Protestants - and the good Lord knows how mistaken they are - have something to hold on to.
▪ I do mean it! Lord knows I read plenty of nonfiction books.
▪ The Lord knows I did my best.
▪ The Lord knows why she hung them where she would see them every time she looked up.
▪ The Lord only knows what will happen in the regular season and playoffs next year.
▪ We need heroes. Lord knows, kids need them today.
▪ When I was a young houseman I - well, enjoyed a hectic love-life. Lord knows how I managed it.
▪ You realize there was a major pile-up? Lord knows how many vehicles - all of them following us, I suspect.
Our Lord
▪ As unthinkable as Peter raising his voice to Our Lord.
▪ In the lunettes are the apostles - figures in white and below, scenes from the Life of Our Lord.
▪ Wrong Our Lord himself replaces Jacobs's ladder.
do a Lord Lucan
good grief/God/Lord/heavens/gracious!
▪ Good grief! I forgot my keys again.
the House of Lords
the Lord
▪ The Lord helps and guides us.
the Lord's Prayer
the Lords
▪ In some the dominance of the lords was strong, in others the tradition of freedom much stronger.
▪ In the Lords, they were represented by Equitable even though they had a case against the assurer.
▪ It was also passed, rather reluctantly, by the Lords.
▪ On a winter's day the Lords has the dozy ambience of a modernized and centrally-heated Victorian stately home.
▪ The final phrase seems to recognize that the Lords have some merit as a residual guardian of the constitution.
▪ There is another problem about getting rid of the Lords.
▪ Two-thirds of the Lords are hereditary peers who succeeded to the title automatically on their father's death.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lord Tennyson
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dear lord, but it hurt.
▪ Dear lord, one word from that dreadful old woman, and she was undone.
▪ Life size models of the medieval lords, and a dramatic civil war battle scene, are just some of the attractions.
▪ Louie bellowed out a roar that must have penetrated to not only Kitty upstairs but the lord too.
▪ Now, my lords, as to numbers.
▪ The records tell us a little about the labourers employed by the lords.
▪ What he would do without Henry, lord knows.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Besides, some heads like to lord it over local parents - particularly over the pushy ones.
▪ If they want any patients, they must grovel before the family practitioners they previously lorded over.
▪ Most chaps in my time wouldn't dream of trying to lord it over their girl.
▪ The Methodists moved west from Baltimore to Kansas and lorded it over the border states.
▪ They could democratize the royal professions that lord it over our health, education, welfare and criminal justice bureaucracies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lord

Lord \Lord\, v. t.

  1. To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord. [R.]
    --Shak.

  2. To rule or preside over as a lord. [R.]

Lord

Lord \Lord\, n. [OE. lord, laverd, loverd, AS. hl[=a]ford, for hl[=a]fweard, i. e., bread keeper; hl[=a]f bread, loaf + weardian to look after, to take care of, to ward. See Loaf, and Ward to guard, and cf. Laird, Lady.]

  1. One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.

    But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion.
    --Shak.

    Man over men He made not lord.
    --Milton.

  2. 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 baron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. [Eng.]

  3. 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. [Eng.]

  4. A husband. ``My lord being old also.''
    --Gen. xviii. 12.

    Thou worthy lord Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee.
    --Shak.

  5. (Feudal Law) 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.

  6. The Supreme Being; Jehovah.

    Note: When Lord, in the Old Testament, is printed in small capitals, it is usually equivalent to Jehovah, and might, with more propriety, be so rendered.

  7. (Christianity) The Savior; Jesus Christ. House of Lords, one of the constituent parts of the British Parliament, consisting of the lords spiritual and temporal. Lord high chancellor, Lord high constable, etc. See Chancellor, Constable, etc. Lord justice clerk, the second in rank of the two highest judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. Lord justice general, or Lord president, the highest in rank of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. Lord keeper, an ancient officer of the English crown, who had the custody of the king's great seal, with authority to affix it to public documents. The office is now merged in that of the chancellor. Lord lieutenant, a representative of British royalty: the lord lieutenant of Ireland being the representative of royalty there, and exercising supreme administrative authority; the lord lieutenant of a county being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county. Lord of misrule, the master of the revels at Christmas in a nobleman's or other great house. --Eng. Cyc. Lords spiritual, the archbishops and bishops who have seats in the House of Lords. Lords temporal, the peers of England; also, sixteen representative peers of Scotland, and twenty-eight representatives of the Irish peerage. Our lord, Jesus Christ; the Savior. The Lord's Day, Sunday; the Christian Sabbath, on which the Lord Jesus rose from the dead. The Lord's Prayer, (Christianity) the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples, also called the Our Father. --Matt. vi. 9-13. The Lord's Supper.

    1. The paschal supper partaken of by Jesus the night before his crucifixion.

    2. The sacrament of the eucharist; the holy communion. The Lord's Table.

      1. The altar or table from which the sacrament is dispensed.

      2. The sacrament itself.

Lord

Lord \Lord\ (l[^o]rd), n. [Cf. Gr. ? bent so as to be convex in front.] A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively. [Eng.]
--Richardson (Dict.).

Lord

Lord \Lord\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lorded; p. pr. & vb. n. Lording.] 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; as, rich students lording it over their classmates.

The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss.
--Spenser.

I see them lording it in London streets.
--Shak.

And lorded over them whom now they serve.
--Milton.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lord

c.1300, "to exercise lordship," from lord (n.). Meaning "to play the lord, domineer" is late 14c. Related: Lorded; lording. To lord it is from 1570s.

lord

mid-13c., laverd, loverd, from Old English hlaford "master of a household, ruler, superior," also "God" (translating Latin Dominus, though Old English drihten was used more often), earlier hlafweard, literally "one who guards the loaves," from hlaf "bread, loaf" (see loaf (n.)) + weard "keeper, guardian" (see ward (n.)). Compare lady (literally "bread-kneader"), and Old English hlafæta "household servant," literally "loaf-eater." Modern monosyllabic form emerged 14c. As an interjection from late 14c. Lord's Prayer is from 1540s. Lord of the Flies translates Beelzebub (q.v.) and was name of 1954 book by William Golding. To drink like a lord is from 1620s.

Wiktionary
lord

n. 1 (label en obsolete) The master of the servants of a household; (label en historical) the master of a feudal manor 2 # (label en obsolete) The male head of a household, a father or husband. 3 # (label en obsolete) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession 4 One possessing similar mastery over others; (label en historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler 5 # (label en historical) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king 6 # A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one 7 # (label en obsolete uncommon) A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones 8 One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (''esp. as'' '''lord of''' ~) 9 # The magnates of a trade or profession 10 (label en astrology) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc. 11 (label en British slang obsolete) A hunchback. 12 (label en British Australian via Cockney rhyming slang obsolete) sixpence. vb. 1 (label en intransitive and transitive) domineer or act like a lord. 2 (label en transitive) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.

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WordNet
lord

v. make a lord of someone

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Wikipedia
Lord

Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others acting like a master, a chief, or a ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles. The collective "Lords" can refer to a group or body of peers.

Lord (band)

Lord (sometimes spelled LORD) is a heavy metal band from Wollongong, Australia. The group began as a solo project for "Lord Tim" Grose of Dungeon in 2003 and expanded into a complete band when Dungeon broke up in 2005. They have released four albums and 3 EP's to date. Lord has appeared with major acts that include Queensrÿche, Nightwish, Nevermore, Saxon and Gamma Ray. The band's name is usually stylised in all capital letters.

Lord (horse)

Lord (foaled 1954) was a New Zealand-born Thoroughbred racehorse who raced successfully in Australia.

Lord (surname)

Lord is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Lord family, fictional family
  • Albert Lord, (1912–1991), Professor of Slavic literature
  • Amnon Lord (born 1952), Israeli journalist
  • Andrew Lord (born 1985), Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Austin W. Lord (1860–1922), American architect
  • Ava Lord
  • Bernard Lord (born 1965), Canadian politician
  • Bette Bao Lord
  • Charles Lord (1928–1993), United States investment banker
  • Chester Sanders Lord (1850–1933), New York journalist
  • David Lord
  • Del Lord (1894–1970), film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films
  • Dorian Lord, fictional character
  • Edwin Chesley Estes Lord (born 1868), American geologist and petrographer
  • Frank Lord, English footballer and manager
  • George Lord (1818–1880), Australian politician
  • George Edwin Lord (1846–1876), U.S. Army assistant surgeon
  • George P. Lord (1831–1917), New York politician
  • Herbert Gardiner Lord (1849–1930), American philosopher
  • Jack Lord
  • James Lord (disambiguation), various
  • Jammal Lord
  • Jarvis Lord (1816–1887), New York politician
  • Joe Lord (b. 1988), UK politician
  • John Lord (disambiguation), various
  • Jon Lord (politician)
  • Jon Lord (1941–2012), English composer and pianist (Deep Purple)
  • Jonathan Lord British MP
  • Jonathan Luke Lord
  • Justine Lord
  • Kara Lord, Miss Guyana Universe 2011
  • Marjorie Lord (1918–2015), American actress
  • Mary Lou Lord
  • Maxwell Lord, fictional character
  • Meredith Lord, fictional character
  • Miles Lord, American jurist
  • Phil Lord, film writer and director
  • Peter Lord
  • Rebecca Lord
  • Thomas Lord
  • Tina Lord, fictional character
  • Victor Lord, fictional character
  • Victoria Lord, fictional character
  • Walter Lord
  • William Lord (disambiguation), various
Lord (disambiguation)

Lord is a general title denoting deference applied to a male person of authority, religious or political or a deity.

Lord or LORD may also refer to:

  • One of the names of God, especially:
    • English Bible translation of the Hebrew name YHWH in both Judaism and Christianity
    • The Lord, Svayam Bhagavan, in Hinduism
  • Lord (surname), a list of people with this surname
  • Lord Corporation, an American technology company
  • Lord (horse), a champion Australian racehorse
  • Lord River, British Columbia, Canada
  • Lord, Iran, a village in Kermanshah Province, Iran
  • Lord (manga), a Japanese comic series by Buronson
  • Legend of the Red Dragon, a BBS role-playing game
  • The Lord (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), a character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Lord (band), an Australian heavy metal band
  • L.O.R.D. (album), a 2014 compilation album by ASAP Mob
  • Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer nicknamed 'Lord Bendtner'
Lord (manga)

Chō-Sangokushi -LORD (超三国志-覇, lit. Extraordinary Records of Three Kingdoms -LORD) also known as LORD (覇, Ha, lit: Conqueror) is the manga drawn by Ryoichi Ikegami (池上 遼一, IKEGAMI Ryoichi) and written by Buronson (武論尊; 史村 翔, FUMIMURA Shō; 岡村 善行, OKAMURA Yoshiyuki).

Lord marks the fourth time this creative team have worked together on a manga. They previously collaborated on Strain, Sanctuary, and Heat, the 2002 Shogakukan Manga Award winner.

The story is loosely based on the Three Kingdoms period, using both real and original characters and events from the historical period in Chinese history and folklore of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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Usage examples of "lord".

He was killed in much the same manner as Lord Abet and the other nobles these past months.

These observations arose out of a motion made by Lord Bathurst, who had been roughly handled by the mob on Friday, for an address praying that his majesty would give immediate orders for prosecuting, in the most effectual manner, the authors, abettors, and instruments of the outrages committed both in the vicinity of the houses of parliament and upon the houses and chapels of the foreign ministers.

I been content to abide till eld came upon me, but my lord would not have it so, but longed for greater things for me.

Clement, that my lord is anhungered of the praise of the folks, and is not like to abide in a mere merchant-town till the mould grow on his back.

Since Bull Shockhead would bury his brother, and lord Ralph would seek the damsel, and whereas there is water anigh, and the sun is well nigh set, let us pitch our tents and abide here till morning, and let night bring counsel unto some of us.

Dale of the Tower: there shall we abide a while to gather victual, a day or two, or three maybe: so my Lord will hold a tourney there: that is to say that I myself and some few others shall try thy manhood somewhat.

So shall we go forth ere it be known that the brother of the Lord of the Porte is abiding at the Lamb.

In fact, the opening was depressingly familiar, full of protestations of loyalty to both King George and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, plus a promise that the authors would willingly fight the French, indeed die for their country, but they could not face another day aboard such a hellish ship.

Once was I taken of the foemen in the town where I abode when my lord was away from me, and a huge slaughter of innocent folk was made, and I was cast into prison and chains, after I had seen my son that I had borne to my lord slain before mine eyes.

CHAPTER 26 They Ride the Mountains Toward Goldburg Five days the Fellowship abode at Whiteness, and or ever they departed Clement waged men-at-arms of the lord of the town, besides servants to look to the beasts amongst the mountains, so that what with one, what with another, they entered the gates of the mountains a goodly company of four score and ten.

Lord knew she ached to, with her insides abuzz and his warmth running up her side.

His defence was firm, his submission was not inglorious, and the emperor was content with an easy tribute, the demolition of his fortresses, and the acknowledgment, on his coins, of a supreme lord.

Few can grasp with understanding that acknowledgment of the Lord, and acknowledgment that all good and truth are from Him, cause one to be reformed and regenerated.

The only difference is the acknowledgment which a man ought to make, that he does good and thinks truth not of himself but from the Lord, and hence that the good he does and the truth he thinks are not his.

And yet none of these things purifies man at all unless he examines himself, sees his sins, acknowledges them, condemns himself on account of them, and repents by desisting from them, and does all this as of himself, yet with the acknowledgment in heart that he does so from the Lord.