Jump To:

• lordship
  lordship

  noun

  a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his oryour ).
• Lordship
  Lordship

  noun

  a title used to address or refer to a bishop, a judge of the high court, or any peer except a duke

lordship

American  

[lawrd-ship] / ˈlɔrd ʃɪp /

noun

1. (often initial capital letter) a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his oryour ).

2. the state or dignity of a lord.

3. the authority or power of a lord.

4. the domain of a lord.

5. British. a term of respect used when speaking of or to judges (usually preceded by his oryour ).

---

Lordship ¹ British  

/ ˈlɔːdʃɪp /

noun

1. a title used to address or refer to a bishop, a judge of the high court, or any peer except a duke

---

lordship ² British  

/ ˈlɔːdʃɪp /

noun

1. the position or authority of a lord

---

Etymology

Origin of lordship

before 900; Middle English; Old English hlāfordscipe. See lord, -ship

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

lordship Lordship

In 2020, Cambodia’s king had bestowed upon Chen the title of neak oknha, similar to a lordship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

It says: "For, as long as 100 of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be subjected to the lordship of the English."

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2021

Does his lordship simply need some Pepto, or is something more dire in store? 

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016

I hope your comment on Dick Pound being impressed by Coe's lordship and medal was written in the spirit of satire.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2016

But it is at least a great comfort to hear his lordship declare so unequivocally that it was all a terrible misunderstanding.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

To think his Lordship did not break his bones!

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2023

"If your Lordship should consider that these observations may disgust or scandalise the learned, I earnestly beg your Lordship to regard them as private and to publish or destroy them as your Lordship sees fit."

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2023

Stony Stoica, 44, from Lordship Lane, is due to appear at Croydon Magistrates' Court on Monday, the Metropolitan Police said.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2021

But this area was to become the Lordship of Galloway, named from the Gall-Gaedil, people of Scandinavian descent who spoke Gaelic and dominated the Irish Sea zone during the Viking age.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020

As we have heard, His Lordship the Governor resides here in a ship off the shore of Norfolk, surrounded by his small fleet.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Related Words

• superpower