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单词 laird
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laird

(leəʳd)
Word forms: plural lairds
countable noun
A laird is someone who owns a large area of land in Scotland.

laird in British English

(lɛəd, Scottish lerd)
noun
Scottish
a landowner, esp of a large estate
Word origin
C15: Scottish variant of lord

laird in American English

(lɛrd; Scottish leɪʀd)
noun
in Scotland, a landowner, esp. a wealthy one
Derived forms
lairdly (ˈlairdly)
adjective
Word origin
Scot form of lord

Examples of 'laird' in a sentence
laird

Lairds routinely burned down the houses and seized the livestock of tenants who displeased them.
Arthur Herman THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (2002)
He marched around the aerodrome brandishing it like a laird striding through the heather.
Len Deighton Bomber
He was a laird's son.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The cook always felt that the butler might be on better terms with the laird and his wife than she was -- and vice versa.
Smout, T.C. & Wood, Sydney Scottish Voices 1745-1960 (1990)
Unlike some Scottish lairds, he is not rich.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But the change was also supposed to benefit the tenant as well, by letting him work to pay his laird rather than fight for him.
Arthur Herman THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (2002)
Even the minister was chosen by the congregation's consistory of elected elders, instead of by some powerful aristocrat or laird.
Arthur Herman THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World (2002)
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