Definitions

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  • noun A person who has mastered time travel.

Etymologies

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time + lord; coined in the long-running BBC television series Doctor Who.

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Examples

  • You must be part timelord, that is the only way it can regenerate that fast.

    Discover Blogs 2010

  • Posted on Apr 01, 2010 under SF News | No Comment the new timelord visits salford with his latest sexy assistant.

    Planet-x.com.au » dr.who and companion on Flickr – Photo Sharing! 2010

  • Like the timelord who in Castrovalva had to jettison a quarter of the Tardis in order to propel it forward in time again, we have to abandon the stored-up past to even have a chance of reaching the future.

    December « 2009 « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • Like the timelord who in Castrovalva had to jettison a quarter of the Tardis in order to propel it forward in time again, we have to abandon the stored-up past to even have a chance of reaching the future.

    Forgetting, to live « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • But one cannot expect too much detailed attention to the canvas of the seventeenth century in 100 minutes of the adventures of a roving timelord.

    Whoblogging 3 nwhyte 2008

  • By the end of the episode the 2 doctors do rejoin as 1 single timelord again, this joining is the reference of the 3 fold man (single heart doctor + single heart doctor = 2 heart doctor).

    Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Still who knows what goes on behind the closed doors of the tardis, or indeed what passes for sex for a timelord -- unsurprisingly the BBC seems very reticent about such information.

    Rooting the Doctor 2 2009

  • My timelord obession does cause a lot of problem with family back at Wayne Manor ...

    Fun Facts! 2007

  • Nice comment on it in the first episode of the recent Dreamland, "Well, human, timelord, just an accident of dimensional geography when it comes down to it".

    Half Human On His Mother's Side James F. McGrath 2009

  • As you say bring on the Jenny-not quite a timelord-who adventures.

    Rooting the Doctor 2 2009

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