/lɛːd/, /lɛəɹd/, /lerd/
OriginThe noun is borrowed from Scots laird, from northern or Scottish Middle English lard, laverd, a variant of lord. The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of hlaford and lord.
- historicalA feudal lord in Scottish contexts.
- ScotlandAn aristocrat, particularly in Scottish contexts and in reference to the chiefs of the Scottish clans.
“Now Wiſe, and Rich, and Worthie, and Wonderful, and Faithful and True, and Rare, & Charitable, and Great Laird of Carnwath, Be not Prowd, altho I Commend you at ſuch a Rate behind your back and yet ne”
“Once I was call'd a great Fife laird,
I dwelt not far from the Hall-yard:
[...]
O! but it's long and many a year,
Since laſt my feet did travel here.
I find great change in old lairds places,
I know t”
“[H]e brought with him money enough to purchase the small estate of Monkbarns, then sold by a dissipated laird to whose father it had been gifted, with other church lands, upon the dissolution of the g”
- ScotlandA landowner, particularly in Scottish contexts.
“In Scotland, the traditional term for the owner of an upland estate is the ‘laird’. [...] Well into the post-war period, the lairds of large estates were generally treated deferentially by local peopl”
- Scotland, transitiveChiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over).
“But cauld was his hearth ere his youdith was o'er, / An' he delved on the lands he had lairded before; / Yet though he beggared his ha' an' deserted his lea, / Contented he roamed on the banks o' the ”
“You'd stand with a single malt, / in braces, admiring a Grinling, / while I did a fingertip search of your face, / [...] / discovering the recesses of baronial you, / lairding it in a rental estate / ”
“Declan observed him, analyzing his reaction. He loved to unnerve his lairding brother.”
- A surname.
- A township and village in Algoma District, northern Ontario.
- A rural municipality, the Rural Municipality of Laird No. 404, in central Saskatchewan.
- A village within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan, named after David Laird.
- A census-designated place in Yuma County, Colorado.
- A township in Houghton County, Michigan.
- A township in Phelps County, Nebraska.
Formslairds(plural) · lairds(present, singular, third-person) · lairding(participle, present) · lairded(participle, past) · lairded(past)
Source: Wiktionary