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Plural of lordship

regular plural

The plural of lordship is lordships.

Forms of lordship

Singularlordship /ˈlɔːd.ʃɪp/
Plurallordships
Countablecountable and uncountable

Lordships in a sentence

  • Castellans, often exercising control over a few villages and half a dozen small lordships, transformed their banal lordships into quasi-sovereign mini-states, independent of royal or comital sanction or control.2003, Benno Teschke, The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations, Verso, page 86. From the entry castellan

Meaning of lordship

  1. noun The state or condition of being a lord.
  2. noun Title applied to a lord, bishop, judge, or another man with a title.
  3. noun A man (sometimes a boy) who is behaving in a seigneurial manner or acting like a lord, behaving in a bossy manner or lording it up.

Full definition of lordship

Questions about the plural of lordship

What is the plural of lordship?
The plural of lordship is lordships.
Is lordship countable?
Lordship is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lordship (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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