Lord

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.
• Jesus Christ, God the Son.
• Any other deity particularly important to a religion or a worshipper.
• , originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a lord or had worked in a lord's household.

Interjection

• An interjection variously expressing astonishment, surprise, resignation.

Noun

• A formal title of the lesser British nobility, used as a shortened form for a Lord of the Manor and Lord Proprietor.
• 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).
• Similar formal and generic titles in other countries.
• An additional title added to denote the dignity of certain high officials, such as the "Lord Mayors" of major cities in the British Commonwealth
• The elected president of a festival.
• A high priest.

Origin

• See lord.
• In reference to the God of the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, originally a translation (attested from the late Old English form hlāford) of the Vulgate Latin Dominus ("master of a house; lord"), translating the New Testament and the Septuagint's Ancient Greek ὁ κύριος or Κύριος (ó kýrios, "the supreme one; Lord, Kyrios"), both in reference to Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾdny, "my lord; my Lord, Adonai") from אדון (ʾdwn, "lord, patron; Lord") + י- (-y, "my"), cognate with Phoenician (ʾdn, "lord; Lord, Adon"). Adonai appears in the Tanakh both directly and as a euphemism read aloud during occurrences of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH, "I am what I am; Jehovah"). See the usage notes below. Displaced the earlier term drighten, Drighten.