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(rare) A chief and superior master.
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The president of a local chapter of freemasons.
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The role or status of a cavalier.
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(rare) A female chancellor.
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(inexact) Synonym of overlord: a lord over other lords, a lord paramount.
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The land ruled over by a chief; chieftainship.
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(UK, informal) A businessman working in the City of London financial district.
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An assistant (and eventual successor) to an abbess
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(obsolete) A husbandman.
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(Britain, Ireland) In Britain and Ireland, a family of the landed gentry.
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By extension, any illustrious or eminent group of people, not necessarily twelve in number; most frequently applied to writers of literature.
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master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor or an academic master
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(colloquial) A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.
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The member of a legislative house who has served the longest current continuous period.
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A Freemason who has completed the second degree of initiation into Freemasonry.
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A group of people associated for a common purpose.
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Rare spelling of governoress. [(rare, nonstandard) A woman employed to educate children in private households; a governess.]
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(rare) A female governor.
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The office or term of a governess.
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The office of governess.
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(rare, nonstandard) A woman employed to educate children in private households; a governess.
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(rare) A female governor.
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(chiefly Britain) A female school principal.
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The position of a headmistress.
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(rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship [The position of a headmistress.]
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A woman who has received an inheritance.
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A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
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In an organization that is divided into houses, the person with authority over and responsibility for a house.
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(UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
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A female inheritor; an heiress.
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The role or status of a lackey.
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(transitive, Scotland) Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over).
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The role or status of landlady.
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The role or status of landlady.
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A magnate of a trade or profession.
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A husband, especially one who is domineering.
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(idiomatic, biblical) a ruler over a worthless kingdom; leader of a meaningless microcosm.
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An unimportant or petty lord.
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(politics) The first speech made by a new member in the chamber of an assembly, in Britain in the House of Commons and House of Lords.
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(chiefly US) Any overseer, organizer, person in command.
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(obsolete) A king-maker.
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(dated) The head of a household.
adj
Of, befitting, or characteristic of a mentor; mentorlike.
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The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.
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A leader or other important person.
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Someone who is preeminent in their field; a great person.
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(Freemasonry) A Grand Lodge Officer who guards the inner door during a meeting of the Grand Lodge
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A governess; a rectoress.
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A woman in charge of a school.
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(uncountable) The police and security service that dominated the South African government in the 1980s.
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An influential official of the security services of any country.
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An assistant to a churchwarden, one of whose duties is to collect offerings during a service.
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(historical) A member of a class of peasants in medieval Rus', perhaps initially freemen but later gradually reduced to a lower status.
adj
(archaic) soldierly, soldierlike
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The realm, territory, or sphere of political spin.
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State or position of being a squire; squirehood.
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(intransitive, archaic) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
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(India, politics, derogatory) Instructions to organise a protest.
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(Britain, law) Alternative form of turn queen's evidence used when the British monarch is male.
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A subordinate or dependent kingdom.
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(idiomatic) A secret or unofficial decision-maker.
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