I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drunk as a lord ( also drunk as a skunk ) (= very drunk )
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He turned up one morning, drunk as a lord.
House of Lords
Lord's Prayer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dear
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She had been mad to come! Dear lord , one word from that dreadful old woman, and she was undone.
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Not he. Dear lord , no.
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No use thinking that she would never see Travis again. Dear lord , but it hurt.
drunk
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Then turned up one morning drunk as a lord .
feudal
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Additionally, some of the worker's surplus was seized by the feudal lord .
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People lived in small communities spread throughout the countryside, under the authority of feudal lords whose land they worked as tenants.
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They were also hired as soldiers by feudal lords .
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These rich feudal lords were required to spend six months a year in their palaces at Yedo.
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He had assumed his lordship like any other feudal lord .
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Occasionally a feudal lord reserved a wild patch of forest from destruction for his game hunting.
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The feudal lords - who could afford real glass - usually had it set directly into stone or metal.
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Once princes and feudal lords who wished to increase the productive wealth of their domains imported craftsmen as a matter of course.
good
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But good lord , you're in your fourth month.
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They had a reputation as healers, good lords who possessed the secrets of both heaven and earth.
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One obvious element was his willingness to work at being a good lord .
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I came here to be a good lord as well as the King's most loyal servant!
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Would she not tempt the best lord in the land to run away with her?
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As Gloucester's power grew, it made him a better lord for the affinity as a whole.
great
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There were witches who healed children and cattle, wizards who worked great things for lords .
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One has to be a great lord in Sumatra to have a roast or boiled chicken...
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At the same time he was a great lord .
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The cuckolding of heiresses and the wives of great lords was considered the highest form of courtly love.
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Service to a king or a great lord was often the key to patronage and status.
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No armies marched the land, no great lords unfurled the banners of rebellion.
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It would do us far more honour if you could succeed in obtaining a post under some other great lord .
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Lynn was created by a Norman bishop, Boston by a great Breton lord almost simultaneously.
local
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Gloucester was simply not sufficiently involved in the region to maintain a large-scale connection against competition from local lords .
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The power of kings declined and the power of local feudal lords increased.
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Then and later, we know that local lords engaged in renewals of the money to make a fast profit.
young
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So the fox sat down by him and chatted until the young lord came back with a stag which he had shot.
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Next day while the young lord went hunting the fox kept watch.
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I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London.
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Later this rosebud spent a weekend at the stately home of a young lord .
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On either side of him stood his brothers and a collection of young lords .
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The young lord was overjoyed to see what a beautiful wife his friends had found for him.
■ NOUN
chancellor
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The study is an embarrassment for the lord chancellor , who insists that appointments are made purely on merit.
drug
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Mansions sprung up in the once poor agricultural center, and one drug lord walked its streets with gold-plated sandals.
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If convicted, the alleged drug lord could face several life sentences.
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To the casual eye, Juan Garcia Abrego seems like just another run-of-the-mill, alleged international drug lord .
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Most citizens of Juarez are somewhat jaded to routine newspaper accounts of killings by rival drug lords or dueling gang members.
law
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There has never been a female law lord .
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But the the law lords left her with exactly what the appeal court had given her.
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Lord Bingham's appointment is a departure from precedent-normally the second most senior law lord takes over as the senior.
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Ideally, it would be chaired by the law lord , Lord Radcliffe.
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After Nuremberg Oaksey found it difficult to adjust to the work of a law lord .
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If the law lords tell Lord Young to publish, he will breathe a sigh of relief and obey.
lieutenant
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And contact with royalty gives the lord lieutenants real influence.
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Admiral Bryson, an expert on guided weapons, was not of conventional lord lieutenant stock.
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More than one lord lieutenant told me almost apologetically of the number of supplicants who sought his intervention with the democratically-chosen authorities.
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Matheson was appointed lord lieutenant and sheriff principal of the county of Ross in 1866.
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The responsibilities of the lord lieutenant for raising the militia only disappeared in 1921.
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The lord lieutenants have used their association to act like any trade union, and lobbied for a government grant.
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The other duty of the lord lieutenant under Elizabeth was the appointment of justices of the peace.
mayor
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Often he is resignedly mutilated by sour aldermen, by painfully fat lord mayors , by put-upon railway porters.
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He was elected lord mayor of Liverpool for 1916-17 and became an alderman in 1921.
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In 1662-3 he served as lord mayor of London.
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Affidavits taken before the lord mayor , a personal friend of hers, indicate that public opinion was on her side.
■ VERB
become
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Appointed lord advocate and admitted to the Privy Council in 1951, he became lord justice-general and lord president in 1954.
serve
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But other local families are likely to have served both lords , among them the Musgraves of Edenhall.
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In 1662-3 he served as lord mayor of London.
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He served as lord lieutenant of the counties of Glamorgan and Bute from 1815 until his death.
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Another family to serve both lords was the Huddlestons of Millom on the Duddon estuary.
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The lord gave his vassal protection, and rewarded him; the vassal swore to serve his lord.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(Good) Lord!/Oh Lord!
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Good Lord , Tom! What are you doing?
Lord (only) knows
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Even Protestants - and the good Lord knows how mistaken they are - have something to hold on to.
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I do mean it! Lord knows I read plenty of nonfiction books.
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The Lord knows I did my best.
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The Lord knows why she hung them where she would see them every time she looked up.
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The Lord only knows what will happen in the regular season and playoffs next year.
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We need heroes. Lord knows, kids need them today.
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When I was a young houseman I - well, enjoyed a hectic love-life. Lord knows how I managed it.
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You realize there was a major pile-up? Lord knows how many vehicles - all of them following us, I suspect.
Our Lord
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As unthinkable as Peter raising his voice to Our Lord .
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In the lunettes are the apostles - figures in white and below, scenes from the Life of Our Lord .
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Wrong Our Lord himself replaces Jacobs's ladder.
do a Lord Lucan
good grief/God/Lord/heavens/gracious!
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Good grief! I forgot my keys again.
the House of Lords
the Lord
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The Lord helps and guides us.
the Lord's Prayer
the Lords
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In some the dominance of the lords was strong, in others the tradition of freedom much stronger.
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In the Lords , they were represented by Equitable even though they had a case against the assurer.
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It was also passed, rather reluctantly, by the Lords .
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On a winter's day the Lords has the dozy ambience of a modernized and centrally-heated Victorian stately home.
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The final phrase seems to recognize that the Lords have some merit as a residual guardian of the constitution.
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There is another problem about getting rid of the Lords .
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Two-thirds of the Lords are hereditary peers who succeeded to the title automatically on their father's death.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lord Tennyson
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dear lord , but it hurt.
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Dear lord , one word from that dreadful old woman, and she was undone.
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Life size models of the medieval lords, and a dramatic civil war battle scene, are just some of the attractions.
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Louie bellowed out a roar that must have penetrated to not only Kitty upstairs but the lord too.
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Now, my lords, as to numbers.
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The records tell us a little about the labourers employed by the lords.
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What he would do without Henry, lord knows.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Besides, some heads like to lord it over local parents - particularly over the pushy ones.
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If they want any patients, they must grovel before the family practitioners they previously lorded over.
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Most chaps in my time wouldn't dream of trying to lord it over their girl.
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The Methodists moved west from Baltimore to Kansas and lorded it over the border states.
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They could democratize the royal professions that lord it over our health, education, welfare and criminal justice bureaucracies.