Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, chief, or ruler. [1][2] The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the …

In the United Kingdom the title today denotes a peer of the realm, whether or not he sits in Parliament as a member of the House of Lords. Before the Hanoverian succession, before the use of “prince” …

The young lord’s lawyer, a friend of Claudia, is convinced his defendant is innocent, though he fears “a jury will give him life for his tattoos and his sneer.”

In former times, especially in medieval times, a lord was a man who owned land or property and who had power and authority over people. It was the home of the powerful lords of Baux.

1. To act in a domineering or superior manner: an upperclassman lording over the younger students. 2. To have a prominent or dominating position: The castle lords over the valley. 3. To rule over: lorded …

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 …

The House of Lords is the upper chamber of the UK Parliament and is composed of members who hold hereditary or lifetime peerage titles, as well as appointed life peers and bishops of the Church of …

: to act like a lord especially : to put on airs usually used with it lords it over his friends

[countable] (in the UK) a man of high rank in the nobility (= people of high social class), or somebody who has been given the title ‘lord’ as an honour compare lady She's married to a lord. The head of …

Along with these restrictions, there was the influence of feudal lords, primarily aimed at determining social relations within the elite.