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# laird

«laird» in Mova's school dictionary: **a Scottish man who owns a large estate of land, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (laird, lairds)

### meaning for a pupil

A laird is a Scottish man who owns a large estate of land, like a lord of the land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laird/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in Scottish tales the laird is the rich landowner who gives orders to his people

### examples

- The laird rode out to the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laird/#x1)
- The laird lived in a castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laird/#x2)
- Every laird had many tenants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laird/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «laird» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laird/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.