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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French milord, from English my Lord. Compare milady.
Noun
milord (plural milords)
- (British, obsolete, humorous) An English nobleman, especially one traveling Europe in grand style; a wealthy British gentleman.
1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, section 49:Not since the year 17—, when milord Castlebrilliant's curricle was whirled to sea with her ladyship within, had there been such vehement weather.
Translations
Traveling English nobleman
Etymology 2
A variant spelling of m'lord, elided from my + lord.
Noun
milord (plural milords)
- Alternative form of m'lord
Etymology 3
Verb
milord (third-person singular simple present milords, present participle milording, simple past and past participle milorded)
- To address as “milord”.
1834 May 1, “The Reefer’s First Cruise”, in H[enry] W[illiam] Herbert, editor, The American Monthly Magazine, volume III, number III, New York, N.Y.: Monson Bancroft, G. & C. & H. Carvill, and Peter Hill, , page 189:A few pauls a-piece, however, did the business, and after a few more tunes, and some more milordi and capitani, the musicians, finding no more prospect of pauls, departed, leaving the landlord to do the rest of the milording and captaining to the honored Americani.
1854, Crotchet Crayon , “How Mrs. Dobbs arrived in Paris, and made a new acquaintance. ”, in The Rival Houses of the Hobbs and Dobbs: or, Dress-Makers & Dress-Wearers, London: G. Routledge & Co., , page 50:Poor, humble, unaspiring Mr. Dobbs was “Milorded,” to his great annoyance, by everybody, at the Parisian hotel; and monsieur the landlord thought it but right that the rich English “Milord” should pay for the superior accommodation himself and family received at “Le Grand Hôtel.”
1885, Antonio [Carlo Napoleone] Gallenga, “First Repentance. ”, in Episodes of My Second Life. (American and English Experiences.), Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 275:To the ignorant Italians who milorded or miladied them, they were always anxious to explain that they “had no titles, and would be sorry to have any,”—that the members of the House of Lords were for the most part mere upstarts, and that the true nobility of England were the old land-owners,—the county families,—before whose names men only placed the plain Mr. and Mrs. by which they themselves, the Crawleys, preferred to be designated.
1998, Laurel Schunk, Death in Exile, Wichita, Kan.: St Kitts Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, pages 11–12:“ […] I must fetch the doctor for her, milord.” Quill’s eyebrows rose. “You’re hiding her? And no ‘milording’ me. I’m the same old Quill.”
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English my Lord. See also milady.
Pronunciation
Noun
milord m (plural milords)
- (archaic) milord, an English lord abroad
- 1959, Edith Piaf singing Georges Moustaki's "Milord"
Laissez-vous faire, Milord,
Venez dans mon royaume:
Je soigne les remords,
Je chante la romance,
Je chante les milords
Qui n’ont pas eu de chance!- Let yourself go, Milord.
Come into my kingdom:
I treat your remorse,
I sing of romance,
I sing of milords
who've never had a chance!
- (figurative, informal, dated) a rich man
- a horse-drawn car with a raised seat for the driver
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English milord.
Noun
milord m (invariable)
- lord, milord
- dandy (elegant man)
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English milord.
Noun
milord m (plural milords)
- (Jersey) swell
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French milord.
Noun
milord m (plural milorzi)
- milord
Declension
References
- milord in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English milord.
Pronunciation
Noun
milord m (plural milores)
- milord
Further reading