laird
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of laird
1400–50; late Middle English laverd, northern and Scots form of loverd lord
Example Sentences
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Even the snobbiest TV snoots can’t resist Alan Cumming as the playfully sadistic laird of Ardross Castle, emceeing what is essentially a closed circle murder mystery.
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2026
Nightcaps may be had at Elsa’s Bar, named for the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, whose avant-garde creations were worn by Frances Farquharson, a fashion editor who married a Scottish laird and lived nearby.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023
He consequently dines secretly with his old friend Bunker and, through that trickster’s baleful influence, soon finds himself in a Scottish castle, passing himself off as its new laird, Lord Tulliwuddle.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2021
The word means “drowned land” in Gaelic; back in the 14th century, a local laird known as The Wolf of Badenoch brutishly held sway over the district.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020
The laird of the Orkneys sat down and tried to remember.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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