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LORD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

Synonyms:

Almighty; Creator; Divine; God Almighty; Godhead; Jehovah; Lord; Maker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

God; Supreme Being (the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Lord"):

Blessed Trinity; Holy Trinity; Sacred Trinity; Trinity (the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead)

hypostasis; hypostasis of Christ (any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A titled peer of the realm

Synonyms:

Lord; noble; nobleman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Lord" is a kind of...):

male aristocrat (a man who is an aristocrat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Lord"):

viscount ((in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count)

thane (a feudal lord or baron)

sire (a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority)

peer (a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage)

palatine; palsgrave ((Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands)

milord (a term of address for an English lord)

mesne lord (a feudal lord who was lord to his own tenants on land held from a superior lord)

marquess; marquis (nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count)

margrave (a German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess))

grandee (a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal)

duke (a nobleman (in various countries) of high rank)

count (a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl)

burgrave (a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right)

baron (a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank)

armiger (a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms)

Instance hyponyms:

Don Juan (a legendary Spanish nobleman and philanderer who became the hero of many poems and plays and operas)

Mortimer; Roger de Mortimer (English nobleman who deposed Edward II and was executed by Edward III (1287-1330))

Antonym:

Lady (a woman of the peerage in Britain)

Derivation:

lord (make a lord of someone)

lordly (of or befitting a lord)

Lordship (a title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A person who has general authority over others

Synonyms:

lord; master; overlord

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lord" is a kind of...):

ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lord"):

feudal lord; seigneur; seignior (a man of rank in the ancient regime)

Derivation:

lordship (the authority of a lord)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a lord of someone

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "lord" is one way to...):

ennoble; entitle; gentle (give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

Lord (a titled peer of the realm)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I believe there is quite a party assembled there; Lord Ingram, Sir George Lynn, Colonel Dent, and others.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“And now, Lord Holdhurst, we have already taken up too much of your valuable time, and we shall wish you good-day.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here the emperor ascended, with many principal lords of his court, to have an opportunity of viewing me, as I was told, for I could not see them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Lord help me, yes, I do know, for I've been through it all before, once in my own young days, and then with your father.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Why, man, I first loosed string in battle when I was but a lad, younger by two years than you, at Neville's Cross, under the Lord Mowbray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lord Keith will want his finger in the pie, but that’s for the Courts to settle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'Lord!' says I, 'is Mrs. Dashwood ill?'

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

And secretly she added to herself, Lord bless me! when should I ever have thought of putting by in cotton a piece of court-plaister that Frank Churchill had been pulling about!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Oh, lord! yes;—there is nothing in that.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Lord bless you! how you did tremble when Sir Thomas first had you put on!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)