lordnoun [ C ]
uk/lɔːd/us/lɔːrd/a male peer
informal a man who has a lot of power in a particular area of activity:
Several alleged drug lords are to be put on trial.
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- Medieval knights took an oath of allegiance/loyalty to their lord.
- He is the younger son of a lord.
- He was lord of the manor.
- He is lord of all he surveys.
- The people treat him as a lord.
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Royalty, aristocracy & titles
- accession
- archduke
- aristocracy
- aristocrat
- baron
- ennoble
- er
- esquire
- grace
- hereditary peer
- Mr
- Mrs
- nobility
- noble
- nobleman
- sire
- sovereign
- squire
- sultan
- throne
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Important people and describing important people
Idiom(s)
your lord and master
lordverb
uk/lɔːd/us/lɔːrd/informallord it over sb
to behave as if you are better than someone and have the right to tell them what to do:
He likes to lord it over his little sister.
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Showing arrogance and conceit
- (as) proud as Lucifer idiom
- a cut above idiom
- airs and graces idiom
- arrogant
- as if you owned the place idiom
- brash
- cocksure
- egocentric
- egoistic
- egotistic
- get on your high horse idiom
- haughty
- overbearing
- preen
- put on the dog idiom
- revolve
- revolve around sb/sth
- self-appointed
- self-importance
- snotty
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