Meanings
- not comparableWithout 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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving no lord or master
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Old Englishhlāfordlēas
- Middle Englishlordles
- Englishlordless
From Middle English lordles, loverdles, from Old English hlāfordlēas, equivalent to lord + -less.
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