lord

英[lɔːd] 美[lɔrd]

反义词

lord 主，贵族，阁下

来自古英语hlafweard,即管面包的人，一家之主，来自hlaf,面包，词源同loaf,weard,看管，词源同ward,guard.对应拉丁语Dominus,主，上帝。后用于敬称。

lord: lord: [OE] It is a measure of the centrality of bread to human society that the word lord denotes etymologically ‘guardian of the loaf’. It goes back to a primitive Old English *khlaibward, a compound formed from *khlaib ‘loaf’ and *ward ‘guardian, keeper’ (ancestor of modern English ward). This gradually developed in Old English via hlāfweard to hlāford, and in the 14th century it lost its middle /v/ to become the single-syllable word we know today. Lady was likewise originally based on the word loaf.
=> guard, loaf, ward
lord (n.): mid-13c., laverd, loverd, from Old English hlaford "master of a household, ruler, superior," also "God" (translating Latin Dominus, though Old English drihten was used more often), earlier hlafweard, literally "one who guards the loaves," from hlaf "bread, loaf" (see loaf (n.)) + weard "keeper, guardian" (see ward (n.)). Compare lady (literally "bread-kneader"), and Old English hlafæta "household servant," literally "loaf-eater." Modern monosyllabic form emerged 14c. As an interjection from late 14c. Lord's Prayer is from 1540s. Lord of the Flies translates Beelzebub (q.v.) and was name of 1954 book by William Golding. To drink like a lord is from 1620s.
lord (v.): c. 1300, "to exercise lordship," from lord (n.). Meaning "to play the lord, domineer" is late 14c. Related: Lorded; lording. To lord it is from 1570s.

2. A few days earlier he had received a telegram from Lord Lloyd.: 几天前，他收到劳埃德勋爵发来的一封电报。

3. His nine-month sentence was overturned by Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Watkins.: 上诉法院法官沃特金斯撤销了对他作出的9个月徒刑的判决。

5. She told us she was descended from some Scottish Lord.: 她告诉我们她是某苏格兰勋爵的后裔。