| 单词 | lords of creation |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslords of (the) creation lords of (the) creation n. (occasionally in singular) men as opposed to women; (now also) those entitled or able to exercise power or control over other people, the natural world, etc., or who act with a sense of such entitlement. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > men collectively wapman-kinc1175 manc1300 menkinda1470 mankind1526 manhood1588 mens-kind1592 the sterner (alsobetter, rougher, stronger) sex1608 lords of creation1649 menfolk1749 masculinity1860 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > others micklea1300 personagec1485 Triton1589 Jovian1598 gallimaufry1600 lords of creation1649 man of destiny1827 mugwump1828 man of the moment1837 history-maker1848 1649 W. Everard et al. True Levellers Standard Adv. 17 The Earth is the Lords, that is, Mans, who is Lord of the Creation. 1688 A. Behn Lycidus 16 Those faithless Slaves, which Heaven first made to obey the Lords of the Creation. 1744 J. Hobart in Lett. Countess Suffolk (1824) II. 207 I almost loved woman for her sake, and thought..they might attain to a sagacity equal to that of the lords of the creation. 1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl II. x. 189 'Tis really a mighty silly thing for a lord of the creation..to take up his residence in a boarding house..where there are pretty women. 1849 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 27 May 9/3 The horses were being freshened up with hay and water, and coaxed into another super-quadrupedal effort on behalf of the lords of the creation. 1853 E. Clacy Lady's Visit Gold Diggings Austral. xvi. 255 The absence of so many of ‘the lords of creation’ in pursuit of what they value..more than all the women in the world—nuggets. 1902 Sat. Rev. 17 May 628/1 We are going to be more than ever lords of creation, navigate the heavens as easily as we do the waters. 1961 W. M. Watt Muhammad iii. 59 The influential merchants of Mecca..were not the lords of creation they thought they were. 2013 Sc. Express (Nexis) 16 Sept. 23 The swaggering Lords of Creation covered Vietnam peasants with Agent Orange. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。