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overlord

[ oh-ver-lawrd ]

noun

  1. a person who is lord over another or over other lords:

    to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.

  2. a person of great influence, authority, power, or the like:

    the overlords of industry.



verb (used with object)

  1. to rule or govern arbitrarily or tyrannically; domineer.

overlord

/ ˈəʊvəˌlɔːd /

noun

  1. a supreme lord or master


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Derived Forms

  • ˈoverˌlordship, noun

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Other Words From

  • over·lordship noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of overlord1

Middle English word dating back to 1150–1200; over-, lord

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Example Sentences

The second school, mostly American, claims equally unequivocally that no such strategy was written into the Overlord plans.

This school states unequivocally that this strategy was included in the final Overlord plans.

To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.

This tension between outcast and overlord is at the heart of our sweeping change into a tech-driven, spiritually infused economy.

China in Tibet has always been, like Britain in India and Spain in the Americas, an alien overlord.

A strapping fellow like myself, not so bad-looking, oft hath his uses not indented in the bond to his overlord.

Edward on being called in to award the crown required all concerned to acknowledge him as feudal overlord.

But what happens when some really bright overlord decides to by-pass his local enemies?

As ruler of the nation the high priest paid its tribute to Egypt, its overlord.

He laid claim to being the king of kings, the overlord of the world, the ruler of the 'four quarters of the earth.'

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