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Definition: LORD LIEUTENANT |
LORD LIEUTENANT1. A representative of British royalty: the lord lieutenant of Ireland being the representative of royalty there, and exercising supreme administrative authority; the lord lieutenant of a county being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jurisdiction | Judge; tribunal; municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty; lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable; selectman; police, police force, the fuzz; constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LORD LIEUTENANT |
| English words defined with "LORD LIEUTENANT": Deputy lieutenant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LORD LIEUTENANT": Artegal ♦ Cabinet Ministers. (references) |
Expressions using "LORD LIEUTENANT": lord lieutenant of a county ♦ lord lieutenant of Ireland. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "LORD LIEUTENANT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | főispán. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ordlay ieutenantlay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-l-n-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: andouillette. | |
-3 letters: deuteration, interdental, nonliterate. | |
-4 letters: adulterine, delineator, elutriated, internodal, intolerant, laundrette, lieutenant, nonliteral, orientated, outlearned, reallotted, reanointed, tenderloin, untalented. | |
-5 letters: andouille, detention, elutriate, entertain, entrained, etiolated, indenture, interlend, interlent, interlude, internode, intonated, intreated, inundator, linoleate, natrolite, orientate, outearned, outlander, outlearnt, retention, retinulae, rouletted, tailender, tellurian, telluride, toenailed, tolerated, tunnelled, unaltered, underlain, underline, undertone. | |
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