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# lordly

«lordly» in Mova's school dictionary: **grand, proud and splendid, as a lord would be** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (lordlier, lordliest)

### meaning for a pupil

Lordly means grand, proud and splendid, as a lord would be. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lordly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a lordly king or husband, rich and proud

### examples

- The lordly king sat on a golden throne. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lordly/#x1)
- She married a lordly prince. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lordly/#x2)
- The lordly oak towered over the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lordly/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [Water he asked, milk she gave him; in a lordly bowl she brought him curd.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.149/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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