how to pronounce lord

/lɔːd/

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lord is pronounced in one syllable

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ɔː

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An example use of lord in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… that waiting oh my lord it was just …”

meaning of lord

Lord is a title given to a person who has authority over others.

lord frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word lord occurs in english on average 164.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics lord can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that lord can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;