lord

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In the twelfth century a separate sleeping-chamber for the lord was added.

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  1. noun A man of high rank in a feudal society or in one that retains feudal forms and institutions, especially:
  2. noun A king.
  3. noun A territorial magnate.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hlāford : hlāf, bread + weard, guardian; see wer-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Scots laird; from Middle English lord, loverd, lowerd, laverd, laferd, from Anglo-Saxon hlāford, the master of a household, lord; prob. a contraction of *hlāfweard, literally ‘loaf-ward,’ i. e. ‘keeper (and dispenser) of bread,’ from hlāf, bread, loaf, + weard, a keeper: see loaf and ward, n. For the contraction of -weard to -ord, cf. -ald, -old, as in the name Harold and its G. cognate herold (see herald), contracted from -wald, -weald (-walda, -wealda). The name hlāford is peculiar to Anglo-Saxon (the Icelandic lāvardhr being borrowed). This fact and the fanciful nature of its literal meaning indicate that it was prob. orig. a poetical designation, which, like līchama, body (see likam), and other orig. poetical words, came to be adopted in prose, with consequent contraction and loss of meaning. Hence prob. lady, q. v.
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