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noun
1.
a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
2.
a person who exercises authority from property rights; an owner of land, houses, etc.
3.
a person who is a leader or has great influence in a chosen profession: the great lords of banking.
4.
a feudal superior; the proprietor of a manor.
5.
EXPANDa titled nobleman or peer; a person whose ordinary appellation contains by courtesy the title Lord or some higher title.
6.
Lords, the Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal comprising the House of Lords.
7.
(initial capital letter) (in Britain)
a.
the title of certain high officials (used with some other title, name, or the like): Lord Mayor of London.
b.
the formally polite title of a bishop: Lord Bishop of Durham.
c.
the title informally substituted for marquis, earl, viscount, etc., as in the use of Lord Kitchener for Earl Kitchener.
8.
(initial capital letter) the Supreme Being; God; jehovah.
9.
(initial capital letter) the Savior, Jesus Christ.
10.
COLLAPSEAstrology. a planet having dominating influence.
interjection
11.
(often initial capital letter) (used in exclamatory phrases to express surprise, elation, etc.): Lord, what a beautiful day!
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lord it, to assume airs of importance and authority; behave arrogantly or dictatorially; domineer: to lord it over the menial workers.
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Word Origin & History
lord
M.E. laverd, loverd (13c.), from O.E. hlaford "master of a household, ruler, superior," also "God" (translating L. Dominus, though O.E. drihten was used more often), earlier hlafweard, lit. "one who guards the loaves," from hlaf "bread, loaf" + weard "keeper, guardian, ward." Cf.
EXPAND lady, and O.E. hlafæta "household servant," lit. "loaf-eater." Modern monosyllabic form emerged 14c. The verb meaning "to play the lord, domineer" is from late 14c.; to lord it is from 1570s. Interjection Lordy first attested 1853, Amer.Eng. Lord of the Flies translates Beelzebub (q.v.) and was name of 1954 book by William Golding.
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