Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lord regarded as immature or insignificant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little or diminutive lord: used commonly in a derogatory or contemptuous sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little or insignificant lord.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An unimportant or petty
lord . - noun A young lord.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This lordling was ready to wed his bride — the girl he had known and succoured throughout their joint lives — simply because she was rich and the lordling was a pauper.
Lady Anna 2004
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This lordling was ready to wed his bride -- the girl he had known and succoured throughout their joint lives -- simply because she was rich and the lordling was a pauper.
Lady Anna 1874
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An English ultra tory is what we believe has usually been meant and understood in Canada by the unqualified term tory; that is, a lordling in power, a tyrant in politics, and a bigot in religion.
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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In Vlad's storied, ten-volume adventures, he goes from street-punk to crime-boss to lordling to political operative, embroiled in a magnificently realized fantasy world that leaps off the page with a fascinating poleconomy, literary tradition, spirituality and history ancient and modern.
Boing Boing 2009
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When a local lordling sets his sights on the horses belonging to the Rom, Chali, Kevin, and a young man from the mysterious Horseclans named Daiv must do what they can to save the Rom and the horses they love.
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“You look disapproving, young Siovalese country lordling.”
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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I WAS A Siovalese country lordling, and I knew mountains.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Some calf-eyed Siovalese lordling swanning around in fine silk robes, his hair strewn about his shoulders, droning on about spring-fed mountain lakes, dreaming of meadows and tall, nodding flowers, oh yes, fulsome heads bent tenderly on their slender stalks…
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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I WAS A Siovalese country lordling, and I knew mountains.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Some calf-eyed Siovalese lordling swanning around in fine silk robes, his hair strewn about his shoulders, droning on about spring-fed mountain lakes, dreaming of meadows and tall, nodding flowers, oh yes, fulsome heads bent tenderly on their slender stalks…
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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