-lord
UK/lɔːd/US/lɔɹd/
-lord suffix: someone who exercises power through a particular means.
Suffix (1)
-lord
- Someone who exercises power through a particular means.
- war + -lord → warlord
Suffix (2)
-lord
- forms intensifiers of an epithet or insult
- shit + -lord → shitlord
- scrub + -lord → scrublord
- Someone who engages in a disapproved activity.
- STEM + -lord → STEMlord
- edge + -lord → edgelord
Origin of -lord
From lord.
Possibly a generalization from gaylord.
Words that rhyme with -lord
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- umbilical cord
- afford
- ord
- reward
- sward
- toward
- hoard
- untoward
- abhorred
- bored
- destination board
- disaccord
- greatsword
- horde
- onboard
- smorgasbord
- unoared
- adored
- bell chord
- beward
- chored
- concord
- deboard
- discord
- fjord
- gord
- gored
- guide board
- hoared
- ignored
- m'lord
- milord
- moored
- oared
- of one's own accord
- outward
- restored
- secured
- sord
- whored
Questions about -lord
- What does -lord mean?
- -lord means someone who exercises power through a particular means.
- What part of speech is -lord?
- -lord is a suffix.
- How do you pronounce -lord?
- -lord is pronounced /lɔːd/ (UK).
Words near -lord in the dictionary
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