lord and master

Definitions

1. 1

   A husband, especially one who is domineering.

   • If you treat your husband as a lord, as a king, then he is going to treat you as a queen. But if you think that you can lord over him, then he is going to lord over you — he'll be your lord and master with force.
2. 2

   One who has control or dominance.

   • Man is here the origin of his thoughts and lord and master of the words which express these thoughts: he is the centre of language.
3. 3

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lord, master.

   • Uzziah was the prophet's king, therefore his lord and master, and perhaps his hero too, in spite of his tragic end.
   • Neither the serfs of early modern East Elbia nor slaves in the colonial South submitted to exploitation by their lords and masters without resistance.

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