Usually means: Person with authority, control, power.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word lord:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. lord: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Lord, lord: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lord: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lord: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Lord, Lord, lord: Wordnik
  6. (Oh) Lord, Lord, lord: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. LORD, Lord, lord: Wiktionary
  8. lord: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lord: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lord: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lord, lord, the Lord: Dictionary.com
  12. lord: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. lord: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. L.O.R.D, Lord (Kamen Rider), Lord (band), Lord (disambiguation), Lord (manga), Lord (surname), Lord (title), Lord, The Lord (book), The Lord (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lord: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lord: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Lord: Rhymezone
  18. Lord (m), lord, lord, lord, lord (de), lord (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lord: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Lord: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. Lord, Lord: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. lord: Free Dictionary
  23. lord: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Lord, lord: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. lord: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. lord: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Lord, lord: Vocabulary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Lord: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lord: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. LORD: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. lord: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lord: Easton Bible
  2. Lord: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lord, lord, Lord, Lord: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. LORD, The Lord: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lorded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor
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.

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