Meaning of Laird | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A feudal lord in Scottish contexts.
   historical
2. A surname.
3. An aristocrat, particularly in Scottish contexts and in reference to the chiefs of the Scottish clans.
   Scotland
4. A place in Canada:
5. A township and village in Algoma District, northern Ontario.
6. A landowner, particularly in Scottish contexts.
   Scotland
7. A rural municipality, the Rural Municipality of Laird No. 404, in central Saskatchewan.
8. A village within the rural municipality in Saskatchewan, named after David Laird.
9. A place in the United States:
10. A census-designated place in Yuma County, Colorado.
11. A township in Houghton County, Michigan.
12. A township in Phelps County, Nebraska.

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Examples

“Now Wiſe, and Rich, and Worthie, and Wonderful, and Faithful and True, and Rare, & Charitable, and Great Laird of Carnwath, Be not Prowd, altho I Commend you at ſuch a Rate behind your back and yet never ſaw You...”

“Once I was call'd a great Fife laird, I dwelt not far from the Hall-yard: [...] O! but it's long and many a year, Since laſt my feet did travel⟳ here. I find⟳ great change⟳ in old lairds places, I know⟳ the ground, but not the faces, Where ſhall I turn⟳ me firſt about, For my acquaintance is worn out?”

“[H]e brought with him money enough to purchase⟳ the small estate of Monkbarns, then sold by a dissipated laird to whose father it had been gifted, with other church lands, upon the dissolution of the great and wealthy monastery to which it had belonged.”

“Though now entered on the stage⟳ of glorious war, the young Laird of Dalbracken remained still the same imaginative and sensitive being who dreamed and loved in the scenes of his boyhood.”

“Lowland lairds allied themselves with Highland chiefs, along with Edinburgh and Glasgow burghers who worried about having to compete⟳ for markets with English merchants.”

“In Scotland, the traditional term for the owner of an upland estate is the ‘laird’. [...] Well into the post-war period, the lairds of large estates were generally treated deferentially by local people but times have⟳ changed, [...] It would be a mistake⟳ to equate the title ‘laird’ to a British ‘lord’, as it does not confer any political standing, but the fact that some of Scotland’s lairds sit⟳ in the House of Lords can confuse⟳ the outsider.”

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