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# lordship

«lordship» in Mova's school dictionary: **the rank or title of a lord** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (lordships)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lordship is the rank or title of a lord. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lordship/#m1)

2) (old use) 'Your lordship' is a polite way to speak to a lord. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lordship/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, servants address a lord as 'your lordship'

### examples

- I bow to your lordship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lordship/#x1)
- The servant spoke to his lordship with great respect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lordship/#x2)
- He held the lordship of the whole land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lordship/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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