lord1 nounlord2 verb
lordlord1 /lɔːd $ lɔːrd/ noun 
WORD ORIGINlord1
Origin:
Old English hlaford, from hlaf ‘bread’ + weard ‘keeper’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Lord Tennyson
- 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.
WORD SETS
age, nounallied, adjectivebarbarian, nounbaroque, adjectivebarrow, nounbattlements, nounbestiary, nounbiography, nounBlack Death, the, bloodletting, nounchivalry, nouncircus, nounclassical, adjectivecolony, nounconquistador, noundolmen, noundominion, noundoublet, noundragoon, nounducking stool, noundunce's cap, nounEdwardian, adjectiveElizabethan, adjectiveepoch, nounera, nounfeudalism, nounforum, noungalleon, noungalley, noungenealogy, noungladiator, nounGraeco-, prefixGrecian, adjectiveGreco-, prefixHellene, nounHellenic, adjectiveherald, nounhighwayman, nounhistorian, nounhistoric, adjectivehistorical, adjectiveIce Age, nounindustrial archaeology, nounIndustrial Revolution, the, nouninterwar, adjectiveIron Curtain, the, Jacobite, nounlocal history, nounlord, nounmedieval, adjectiveMoorish, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveNorse, adjectivepage, nounpageant, nounpaladin, nounpalimpsest, nounpapyrus, nounparchment, nounpatrician, adjectivepennon, nounperiod piece, nounprehistoric, adjectiveprehistory, nounquarterstaff, nounredcoat, nounreeve, nounRegency, adjectiveRomano-, prefixromanticism, nountime capsule, nounTudor, adjectiveVictorian, adjectiveVictorian, nounWhig, nounzeitgeist, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
also drunk as a skunk (=very drunk)
He turned up one morning, drunk as a lord.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE He turned up one morning, drunk as a lord.· 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.
· Then turned up one morning drunk as a lord.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· The study is an embarrassment for the lord chancellor, who insists that appointments are made purely on merit.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· Appointed lord advocate and admitted to the Privy Council in 1951, he became lord justice-general and lord president in 1954.
· 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 THE ENTRY
1[countable] (also Lord) a man who has a rank in the aristocracy, especially in Britain, or his title: - I've been looking for an excuse to cut my lord Heuil out of the pack, and now you give me this.
- I fear he is not in such sound health as you may think, my lord.
- Look at him, my Lord.
- No, my lord, I beg you keep this thing secret.
- Sometimes there is love - indeed I loved my lord dearly.
- Visitors to Manchester Arena are greeted with a large crowd, singing, Kum ba yah, my Lord.
- You're not - Oh, my Lord and Saviour!
- Could he bear to see them wired-made vulnerable to the least whim of their lords and masters?
- In the rustic humour there were opportunities for poking fun at lords and masters and oppressive authority, both civil and military.
- Meanwhile our lord and master would sit and drink one cup of tea after another, barking orders from time to time.
Lord Salisbury2[countable] a man in medieval Europe who was very powerful and owned a lot of land: the feudal lords3my lord British English spoken used to address a judge or bishop, and in the past to address a lord4somebody’s lord and master someone who must be obeyed because they have power over you – used humorouslylord1 nounlord2 verb
lordlord2 verb VERB TABLE
lord
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | lord |
| he, she, it | lords | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | lorded |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have lorded |
| he, she, it | has lorded | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had lorded |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will lord |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have lorded |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am lording |
| he, she, it | is lording | |
| you, we, they | are lording | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was lording |
| you, we, they | were lording | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been lording |
| he, she, it | has been lording | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been lording |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be lording |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been lording |
EXAMPLES FROM THE 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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
also drunk as a skunk (=very drunk) He turned up one morning, drunk as a lord.
He turned up one morning, drunk as a lord.PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
lord it over somebody to behave in a way that shows you think you are better or more powerful than someone else: - He didn't use his position on the council to lord it over people.
- Besides, some heads like to lord it over local parents - particularly over the pushy ones.
- Here is another way in which you can lord it over you players.
- Lowry, cackling and scratching, is a hoot as the rooster who lords it over the complaining hens in his roost.
- 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.
He didn’t use his position on the council to lord it over people.