timelord
timelord noun: a person who has mastered time travel.
Noun
timelord (plural timelords)
- A person who has mastered time travel.
- A renegade timelord from the future who liked to meddle with history? If this were so, perhaps he really had talked with Christ and the kings of bygone days.1999, Thomas Slemen, Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People
- ...a kind of timelord who rewrites himself as he passes across timezones and geographical locations, often within the same sentence.2001, Simon Ward, Negotiating Positions
Examples of timelord in a sentence
- ...a mind that could fly to all points in the cosmos seemingly at will, able to slip between time, across the ages like some omnipotent, hip hop timelord.2004, Neil Kulkarni, Hip Hop: Bring the Noise:
- Not doing a timelord, ping ponging back and forth through time.2007, Carmel McConnell, The Happiness Plan:
Forms of timelord
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Origin of timelord
From time + lord. From "Time Lord", the term for a member of a specific race of time travellers from the long-running BBC television series Doctor Who.
Questions about timelord
- What does timelord mean?
- Timelord means a person who has mastered time travel.
- How do you use timelord in a sentence?
- ...a mind that could fly to all points in the cosmos seemingly at will, able to slip between time, across the ages like some omnipotent, hip hop timelord.
- What part of speech is timelord?
- Timelord is a noun.
- What is the plural of timelord?
- The plural of timelord is timelords.
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