laird
/lɛːd
/noun
(In Scotland) a person who owns a large estate.The former leader of Scotland's lairds is selling about 500 acres of his Brucklay Estate in countryside west of Peterhead, along with 10 tenant houses, farmland, a lake and the ruins of a castle....
- The study - the first of its kind for 25 years, found that two thirds of lairds were absentee landowners.
- The eviction of a Rousay man in the 1880s by the former laird of the Trumland Estate, General Burroughs, has been commemorated by a stone plaque at the entrance to his family's croft.
Derivatives
lairdship
- By the later 1930s, she and Tony were growing apart: he had become the heir to a Scottish lairdship, on the death of his uncle, and wanted more of the country life of big houses, entertaining, and shooting.
- Then came a career switch to stand-up comedy, TV acting, movie roles and, finally, the lairdship of Candacraig.
- But it is getting ever harder to take his lairdship seriously.
Origin
Late Middle English: Scots form of lord.
Rhymes
- mechanist
- mechanistic
- mechanistically
- mechanization
- mechanize
- mechanizer
- mechano-
- mechanocaloric
- mechanochemical
- mechanochemically
- mechanochemistry
- mechano-electric
- mechano-electrical
- mechanographic
- mechanology
- mechanomorphic
- mechanomorphism
- mechanoreception
- mechanoreceptive
- mechanoreceptor
- mechanosensation
- mechanosensitive
- mechanosensitivity
- mechanosensory
- mechanotherapeutic