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▸ noun: (archaic) The male head of a household, a father or husband.
▸ noun: (archaic) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
▸ noun: One possessing similar mastery over others; (historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)
▸ noun: (historical) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king
▸ noun: A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
▸ noun: (obsolete, uncommon) A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones
▸ noun: One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
▸ noun: A magnate of a trade or profession.
▸ noun: (astrology) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.
▸ noun: (British, slang, obsolete) A hunchback.
▸ noun: (British, Australia, via Cockney rhyming slang, obsolete) Sixpence.
▸ verb: (intransitive and transitive) Domineer or act like a lord.
▸ verb: (transitive) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.
▸ noun: The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.
▸ noun: (Judaism, Islam) The God of Abraham and the Jewish scriptures.
▸ noun: (Christianity) God the Father; the Godhead.
▸ noun: (Christianity) Jesus Christ, God the Son.
▸ noun: (religion) Any other deity particularly important to a religion or a worshipper.
▸ noun: An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a lord or had worked in a lord's household.
▸ noun: A formal title of the lesser British nobility, used for a lord of the manor or Lord Proprietor.
▸ noun: A generic title used in reference to any peer of the British nobility or any peer below the dignity of duke and (as a courtesy title) for the younger sons of dukes and marquesses (see usage note).
▸ noun: Similar formal and generic titles in other countries.
▸ noun: An additional title added to denote the dignity of certain high officials, such as the "Lord Mayors" of major cities in the British Commonwealth
▸ noun: The elected president of a festival.
▸ noun: (Wicca) A high priest.
▸ noun: Typographical variant of Lord, particularly in English translations of the Bible.
Similar:
overlord,
master,
nobleman,
noble,
God Almighty,
Godhead,
divine,
creator,
Almighty,
Jehovah,
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Types:
lord of rings,
lord of flies,
lord of dance,
lord of underworld,
lord of manor,
lord of castle,
lord of ocean,
lord of jungle,
lord of harvest,
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