Lord
Meaning
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- The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.
- The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.
- The Abrahamic deity of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths.
- Jesus Christ, God the Son.
- Any other deity particularly important to a religion or a worshipper.
- An English surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for someone who either acted as if he were a lord or had worked in a lord's household.
Synonyms
preside over
Supreme Being
Shangti
Heavenly King
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/lɔːd/
Etymology
See lord. In reference to the God of the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Bible, originally a translation (attested from the late Old English form hlāford) of the Vulgate Latin Dominus (“master of a house; lord”), translating the New Testament and the Septuagint's Ancient Greek ὁ κύριος or Κύριος (ó kýrios, "the supreme one; Lord, Kyrios"), both in reference to Hebrew אֲדֹנָי (ʾdny, "my lord; my Lord, Adonai") from אדון (ʾdwn, "lord, patron; Lord") + י- (-y, "my"), cognate with Phoenician 𐤀𐤃𐤍 (ʾdn, "lord; Lord, Adon"). Adonai appears in the Tanakh both directly and as a euphemism read aloud during occurrences of the Tetragrammaton יהוה (YHWH, "I am what I am; Jehovah"). See the usage notes below. Displaced the earlier term Drighten.
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Notes