“Lud” is a form of
lord
UK /lɔːd/ · US /loɹd/ noun, verb, proper noun, interjection
Forms lords lording lorded
- 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 ~)
- verb (ambitransitive) To 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.
- proper noun The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.
- proper noun (Judaism, Islam) The God of Abraham and the Jewish scriptures.
- proper noun (Christianity) God the Father; the Godhead.
- proper noun (Christianity) Jesus Christ, God the Son.
- proper noun (religion) Any other deity particularly important to a religion or a worshipper.
- proper 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.
- interjection (originally an invocation) An interjection variously expressing astonishment, surprise, resignation.
- 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.
Synonyms
drighten possessor proprietor sovereign elevate ennoble invest Allah Jehovah Godhead Creator Maker Divine God Almighty Almighty overlord master noble nobleman
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English lord and lorde (attested from the 15th century), from earlier (14th century) lourde and other variants which dropped the intervocalic consonant of earlier lowerd, louerd, loverd, laford, and lhoaverd; from Old English hlāford < hlāfweard, a compound of hlāf (“bread”) + weard (“guardian”); see loaf and ward. The term was already being applied broadly prior to the literary development of Old English and was influenced by its common use to translate Latin dominus. Compare Scots laird (“lord”), preserving a separate vowel development (from northern/Scottish Middle English lard, laverd), the Old English compound hlāf-ǣta (“servant”, literally “bread-eater”), and modern English lady, from Old English hlǣfdīġe (“bread-kneader”). The Middle English word laford was borrowed by Icelandic, where it survives as lávarður. Doublet of hlaford and laird.
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 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (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 that I Am; Jehovah"). See the usage notes below. Displaced the earlier term Drighten.
See lord and Lord.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A hump-backed person; --so called sportively. [Eng.]
- noun One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
- noun A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a boron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. [Eng.]
- verb To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord. [R.]
Etymology [Cf. Gr. Defn: A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively. [Eng.]
Etymology [OE. lord, laverd, loverd, AS. hlaford, for hlafweard, i. e., bread keeper; hlaf bread, loaf + weardian to look after, to take care of, to ward. See Loaf, and Ward to guard, and cf. Laird, Lady.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “lord”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details