Word Finder - lord

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The master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor

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One possessing similar mastery over others; 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)

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One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)

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The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.

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A hunchback.

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(via Cockney rhyming slang) Sixpence.

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Domineer or act like a lord.

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To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.

He is the rightful lord of this country.

I thank you very much for the beautiful story about Lord Fauntleroy, and so does teacher.

She mumbled something he could not understand until he forced concentration, eventually discerning the thin voice whispering The Lord's Prayer.

Not that she would know a drug lord from a prince.

Both demon lord and half-demon were bristling with power, the Dark One's growl audible long before Gabriel reached them.

Gabriel asked, sensing there was more to the demon lord's journey from Hell.

Jared bowed his head and fled, well aware of the power of the demon lord's fury.

His anger surprised her with its intensity, and she judged from Ully's reaction that seeing the lord and master pissed was not something the good-natured mad scientist wanted anything to do with.

All we have is the letter from Rev. Martin, and lord knows what his intentions were.

Gabriel faced the demon lord.

I am deep in your debt, my most gracious lord and master.

Deidre looked at the demon lord.

Gabriel studied the demon lord.

Darkyn, the demon lord charged with heading the Dark One's armies of demons, emerged from a dark hallway.

Lord knows, I'm sure the bed's comfortable but sleeping is when I write!

Lord knows what Edith Shipton might say.

Lord knows what he did to Donnie over the years to cause the boy to despise him so.

The demon lord materialized from the surrounding trees.

The duke of Dorset's reappointment to the lord-lieutenancy in 1751, with his son Lord George Sackville as secretary of state for Ireland, strengthened the primate's position and enabled him to triumph over the popular party on the constitutional question as to the right of the Irish House of Commons to dispose of surplus Irish revenue, which the government maintained was the property of the Crown.

These two, afterwards joined by the primate's old rival Lord Shannon, and usually supported by the earl of Kildare, regained control of affairs in 1758, during the viceroyalty of the duke of Bedford.

In 1502 Warham was consecrated bishop of London and became keeper of the great seal, but his tenure of both these offices was short, as in 1504 he became lord chancellor and archbishop of Canterbury.

A chief lord was chosen every year.

The Dark One that ruled Hell since the time-before-time had fallen to a ruthless demon lord whose goal had long been to take over the mortal realm.

She didn't want to think about the human she'd left in the hands of the demon lord.

Gabriel assessed the demon lord.

Lord, then it's only, what?

Rhyn focused hard on the demon lord then on putting one foot, then the other, beneath his shaking body.

Yes, my lord.  She quit and appointed Gabriel in her stead.

Only the Lord knew what Linda Segal, The Ice Lady of the Parkside Sentinel, would do with this turn of events.

It was a long night, but a nice night; certainly not a night with an adequate allotment of sleep—not with the naked body of beautiful Betty from Boise beside him and a world gone topsy-turvy, and wondering lord knows what lay ahead in the towering mountains that surrounded them.

Our lord even chose the man I was to wed, another lesser servant in need of wife.

On the accession of the latter to the throne, Andrew Stone was appointed treasurer to Queen Charlotte, and attaching himself to Lord Bute he became an influential member of the party known as "the king's friends," whose meetings were frequently held at his house.

Addresses were presented to him at Southampton, Birmingham and other towns; he was officially entertained by the lord mayor of London; at each place he pleaded the cause of his unhappy country.

On the 28th of May 1644, however, it was attacked by Prince Rupert and Lord Derby, and stormed with great slaughter.

On the 15th of October 1651 Lord Derby, who had been taken prisoner after the battle of Worcester, was brought here and executed the same day.

Of liquid collectors the representative is Lord Kelvin's water-dropping electrograph; while Benndorf's is the form of radium collector that has been most used.

He made free of the queen's rents and abducted Lord Traquair's daughter.

In 1522 Douglas was stricken by the plague which raged in London, and died at the house of his friend Lord Dacre.

See Lord Acton, English Historical Review, i.

The grant finally came into the possession of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, and in 1746 a stone was erected at the source of the north branch of the Potomac to mark the western limit of the grant.

Repeated attempts were made by various European nations to subdue the pirates, and in 1816 the city was bombarded by a British squadron under Lord Exmouth, assisted by Dutch men-of-war, and the corsair fleet burned.

While his treaty with Lord Lyons in 1862 for the suppression of the slave trade conceded to England the right of search to a limited extent in African and Cuban waters, he secured a similar concession for American war vessels from the British government, and by his course in the Trent Affair he virtually committed Great Britain to the American attitude with regard to this right.

He also defended the rights of the commoners of Ely threatened by the "adventurers" who had drained the Great Level, and he was nicknamed afterwards by a royalist newspaper "Lord of the Fens."

On the 9th of January 1646 he surprised Lord Wentworth's brigade at Bovey Tracey, and was present with Fairfax at the fall of Exeter on the 9th of April.

The members then trooped out, Cromwell crying after them, "It is you that have forced me to this; for I have sought the Lord night and day that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing this work."

Cromwell, however, persevered, reminding Fortescue, who was left in command, that the war was one against the" Roman Babylon,"that they were" fighting the Lord's battles "; and he sent out reinforcements under Sedgwick, offering inducements to the New Englanders to migrate to Jamaica.

Of these Bridget was the wife successively of Ireton and Fleetwood, Elizabeth married John Claypole, Mary was wife of Thomas Belasyse, Lord Fauconberg; and Frances was the wife of Sir Robert Rich, and secondly of Sir John Russell.

As no one could curse Jesus except under the influence of a devilish afflatus, so none could say "Jesus is Lord" except he was inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Accordingly Paul lays down rules which he regarded as embodying the Lord's commandment.

She converses with angels, sometimes even with the Lord, and both hears and see mysteries."