Definition of lord

"lord" in the noun sense

1. Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah

terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

2. overlord, master, lord

a person who has general authority over others

3. Lord, noble, nobleman

a titled peer of the realm

"lord" in the verb sense

1. lord

make a lord of someone

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Quotations for lord

Love is a mighty lord.
[ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 4 ]

Thou, O Lord, art my glory. [ Motto ]

Lord, keep my memory green! [ Dickens ]

My help cometh from the Lord. [ Motto ]

Lord, what fools these mortals be! [ William Shakespeare ]

Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee. [ Doane ]

Honor the Lord with thy substance.

Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. [ Hebrews ]

All-potent flattery, universal lord! [ Pope ]

An insolent lord is not a gentleman. [ Proverb ]

A strong nor'wester's blowing. Bill!
Hark! don't yet hear it roar now?
Lord help 'em, how I pities them
Unhappy folks on shore now! [ William Pitt ]

The fringe of the garment of the Lord. [ Bailey ]

Lord of himself, that heritage of woe. [ Byron ]

Nature, the vicar of the Almighty Lord. [ Chaucer ]

Not all the water in the rough rude sea
Can wash the balm from an anointed king;
The breath of worldly men cannot depose
The deputy elected by the Lord. [ Rich. II ]

Lord of yourself, uncumbered with a wife. [ Dryden ]

Money will do more than my lord's letter. [ Proverb ]

Lord, help me through this warld o' care,
I'm weary sick o't late and air;
Not but I hae a richer share
Than mony ithers;
But why should ae man better fare,
And a' men brithers? [ Burns ]

He would make his will lord of his reason. [ William Shakespeare ]

Passion makes the will lord of the reason. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done. [ William Shakespeare ]

Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery. [ Shakespeare ]

Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. [ Smollett ]

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool. [ Proverb ]

He that follows the Lord hopes to go before. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The fear of the Lord is the fountain of life. [ Bible ]

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! [ William Shakespeare ]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. [ Bible ]

Thus, day by day, and month by month, we passed;
It pleased the Lord to take my spouse at last.
I tore my gown, I soiled my locks with dust.
And beat my breasts - as wretched widows must:
Before my face my handkerchief I spread,
To hide the flood of tears I did - not shed. [ Pope ]

A lord without riches is a soldier without arms. [ Proverb ]

Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. [ Daniel De Foe ]

Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. [ Bible ]

Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit. [ William Shakespeare ]

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is the Lord: let Him do what seemeth Him good. [ Bible ]

Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round
Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make
The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly
Upon its path--the Lord of Life alone
Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on. [ Lewis Morris ]

Under ground Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord.
Grossly familiar, side by side consume. [ Blair ]

O Lord, I do most cheerfully commit all unto Thee. [ Fenelon ]

Serve a great lord, and you will know what sorrow is. [ Spanish Proverb ]

The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord. [ Bible ]

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Who steals my purse steals trash;
'Tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Lord, shall we grumble, when thy flames do scourge us?
Our sins breathe fire; that fire returns to purge us.
Lord, what an alchemist art thou, whose skill
Transmutes to perfect good from perfect ill! [ Francis Quarles ]

Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion. [ Lady Montagu ]

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

A parson and a ring would make many a poor outcast a lord. [ S. Lover ]

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. [ Swift ]

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. [ Bible ]

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him. [ Bible ]

The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. [ I Samuel ii. 3 ]

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor, and life. [ Bible ]

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. [ Goethe ]

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. [ Bible ]

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. [ Spurgeon ]

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. [ William Shakespeare ]

Books, says my Lord Bacon, should have no patrons but truth and reason. [ Colton ]

We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be well with us. [ Bible ]

The heart is the lord of the body, as a man is the lord of his own house. [ Kiu-o ]

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long. [ Lady Rachel Russell ]

Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. [ St. Paul ]

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it. [ Proverbs x. 22 ]

Grammar knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hand make them obey. [ Molière ]

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. [ Bible ]

My son, be not now negligent, for the Lord hath chosen thee to stand before Him. [ Apoc ]

The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied. [ Bible ]

Rule your spirit well, for if it is not subject to you, it will lord it over you. [ Horace ]

Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. [ Bible ]

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. [ Luke ii. 11 ]

He that has a hundred and one, and owes a hundred and two, the Lord have mercy upon him. [ Proverb ]

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being. [ Sir E. Brydges ]

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [ Arndt ]

Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. [ Bible ]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. [ Bible ]

Born to be ploughed with years, and sown with cares, and reaped by Death, lord of the human soil. [ Byron ]

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. [ Bible ]

Who shall contend with time, - vanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? [ H. K. White ]

This man (Chesterfield) I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth! [ Izaak Walton ]

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord. [ Bible ]

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. [ Bible ]

Scripture says, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. I say, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of man. [ Chamfort ]

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. [ Dryden ]

Why should I start at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know he is no idle husbandman; he purposeth a crop. [ Rutherford ]

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not onto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. [ Bible ]

In getting of your riches, and in using of them, you should always have three things in your heart, that is to say, our Lord God, Conscience, and good Name. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

We must not sit down, and look for miracles. Up, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. [ John Eliot ]

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. [ Spurgeon ]

Haste turns usually upon a matter of ten minutes too late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of being ten minutes too early. [ Bovee ]

Lord Melbourne was so accustomed to garnish his conversation in this way that Sydney Smith once said to him, We will take it for granted that everybody is damned, and now proceed with the subject. [ L'Estrange ]

Learn, O student, the true wisdom. See yon bush aflame with roses, like the burning bush of Moses. Listen, and thou shalt hear, if thy soul be not deaf, how from out it, soft and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Almighty. [ Hafiz ]

Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. [ Barry Cornwall ]

There is nothing like youth. The middle aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile, like most kings. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Nature's noblemen are everywhere, - in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman. [ Willis ]

As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into His likeness, and, still more, forever deepening in the companionship of His thought and bliss, from glory to glory - could we desire more? [ Bishop R. S. Foster ]

Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. [ John Neal ]

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he boasted, The less you speak of your greatness, the more I shall think of it. Mirrors are the accompaniments of dandies, not heroes. The men of history were not perpetually looking in the glass to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it, and did it so well that the wondering world saw them to be great, and labeled them accordingly. [ Rev. S. Coley ]

After all there is a weariness that cannot be prevented. It will come on. The work brings it on. The cross brings it on. Sometimes the very walk with God brings it on, for the flesh is weak; and at such moments we hear softer and sweeter than it ever floated in the wondrous air of Mendelssohn, O rest in the Lord, for it has the sound of an immortal requiem: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors. [ James Hamilton ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

Columbus died in utter ignorance of the true nature of his discovery. He supposed he had found India, but never knew how strangely God had used him. So God piloted the fleet. The great discoverer, with all his heroic virtues, did not know whither he went. He sailed for the back door of Asia, and landed at the front door of America, and knew it not. He never settled the continent. Thus far and no farther, said the Lord. His providence was over all. [ David James Burrell ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]

lord in Scrabble®

The word lord is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters lord:

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lord in Words With Friends™

The word lord is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters lord:

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Words within the letters of lord

2 letter words in lord (2 words)

3 letter words in lord (2 words)

4 letter words in lord (1 word)

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Word Growth involving lord

Shorter words in lord

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Longer words containing lord

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landlord landlords

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