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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
lord/lady
see also KING/QUEEN
- a word that shows a person's profession or rank: title
to be given a title ◎ a hereditary title (= one that you can pass on to your son or daughter)
- a person who belongs (by birth) to a high social class, often with a special title: aristocrat; the people who are aristocrats: the aristocracy (with singular or plural verb); belonging to or connected with the aristocracy: aristocratic
The British aristocracy nowadays hold little political power.
- (in Britain) an aristocrat with a title or a man who has been chosen by the government to sit in the House of Lords: peer, lord; a woman peer: peeress
He was hoping to be made a peer.
- (in Britain) a man who is a peer is called Lord ※¦; a woman who is a peer or who is the wife of a peer is called Lady ※¦
Lord and Lady Callaghan
- (in Britain) the rank of a peer: peerage
She was given a peerage by the Queen.
- (in Britain) if your peerage cannot be passed on to your son or daughter, it is a life peerage
Mrs Thatcher was made a life peer after being prime minister for 11 years.
- some ranks of men/women in the British peerage (most senior first): duke/duchess, earl/countess, baron/baroness
He was born the son of a duke. ◎ the Earl of Essex ◎ Baroness Blenkinsop
- a man who has been given a rank of honour and who can use 'Sir' in front of his name: knight; the rank that a knight has: knighthood
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