Etymology

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Today it means: A person who has mastered time travel. Full definition →

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The story

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.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.