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lordless

lordless adjective: without a lord.

Adjective

lordless (not comparable)

  1. Without a lord.
    • […] whose sons, from days long before the Conquest, have always desired to go to sea when the cuckoo sang, and to come home again when they were tired of the hail and salt showers, because they could not bear to be landless and lordless men.1921, Anthony Pryde, chapter XI, in Nightfall

Origin of lordless

From Middle English lordles, loverdles, from Old English hlāfordlēas, equivalent to lord + -less.

Words formed from lordless

Questions about lordless

What does lordless mean?
Lordless means without a lord.
What part of speech is lordless?
Lordless is an adjective.

Words near lordless in the dictionary

  1. Lordis
  2. lordish
  3. lordishly
  4. lordkin
  5. lordkins
  6. lordless
  7. lordlessness
  8. lordlet
  9. lordlets
  10. lordlier
  11. lordliest

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