Lloyd

American  

[loid] / lɔɪd /

noun

1. Welsh Legend. Llwyd.

2. Harold (Clayton) 1894–1971, U.S. actor.

3. (John) Selwyn (Brooke) 1904–78, British statesman.

4. a male given name: from a Welsh word meaning “gray.”

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Lloyd British  

/ lɔɪd /

noun

1. Clive ( Hubert ). born 1944, West Indian (Guyanese) cricketer; played in 110 tests (1966–84), scoring 7,515 runs; captained the West Indies in 74 tests and to two World Cup wins (1975, 1979)

2. Harold ( Clayton ). 1893–1971, US comic film actor

3. Marie, real name Matilda Alice Victoria Wood. 1870–1922, English music-hall entertainer

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Example Sentences

Chloe Lloyd, from the sales team, pitches a joke she has heard earlier that day.

From BBC

Fallingwater, the world-famous house over a waterfall at Bear Run in the Pennsylvania woods, completed in 1935 by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann, meets all of the criteria.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dame Ann grew up in Moss Side in Manchester and is currently the pro-chancellor of the University of Surrey and chair of institutions including the Lloyds Bank Foundation.

From BBC

Lloyd moved on to small, blinking, symmetrical configurations that, almost 60 years later, seem slightly old-fashioned.

From The Wall Street Journal

“That was a crucial moment for the whole project, because unless they’ve taken to Claire and she’s taken to them, I don’t think it could ever have worked,” Lloyd says.

From Los Angeles Times