Usually means: Scottish landowner, title below baron.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word laird:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. laird: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. laird: Merriam-Webster
  3. laird: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. laird: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. laird: Collins English Dictionary
  6. laird: Vocabulary.com
  7. Laird, laird: Wordnik
  8. laird: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Laird, laird: Wiktionary
  10. laird: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. laird: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. laird: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Laird, laird: Dictionary.com
  14. laird: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Laird (disambiguation), Laird (surname), Laird: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Laird: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. laird: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. laird: Rhymezone
  19. Laird: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. laird: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Laird: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. laird: FreeDictionary.org
  23. laird: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. laird: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Laird (Lord): Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Laird (Lord): Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. laird: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. laird: The Folk File
  2. laird: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See lairdly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (historical) A feudal lord in Scottish contexts.
noun:  (chiefly Scotland) An aristocrat, particularly in Scottish contexts and in reference to the chiefs of the Scottish clans.
noun:  (chiefly Scotland) A landowner, particularly in Scottish contexts.
verb:  (transitive, Scotland) Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over).
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place in Canada:
noun:  A township and village in Algoma District, northern Ontario.
noun:  A rural municipality, the Rural Municipality of Laird No. 404, in central Saskatchewan.
noun:  A village within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan, named after David Laird.
noun:  A place in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in Yuma County, Colorado.
noun:  A township in Houghton County, Michigan.
noun:  A township in Phelps County, Nebraska.

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