Lords
noun
short for House of Lords
Lords
1 British
/ lɔːdz /
noun
Lord's
2
British
/ lɔːdz /
noun
Example Sentences
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Some wonder if Burnham might give him a seat in the House of Lords and hand him his old job back as foreign secretary.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026
"It's perfectly reasonable for us to ask the House of Lords to finish the job."
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026
Falling from office after the British surrender at Yorktown, he had a soft landing in the House of Lords as 1st Viscount Sackville.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
The “Letters of Junius” were widely reprinted in the colonies, and Richmond would become the first member of the House of Lords to endorse American independence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
It is likely that the first British villages in North America, thousands of miles from the House of Lords, would have lost some of the brutally graded social hierarchy that characterized European life.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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