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LORDLING

Definition: LORDLING

LORDLING

Noun

1. A little or insignificant lord.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LORDLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Note: Lordling \Lord"ling\, noun. [Lord -ling.]. (Websters 1913)

"LORDLING" is a common misspelling or typo for: lording.


Synonyms within Context: LORDLING

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nobility

Peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku; don, donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: LORDLING

English words defined with "LORDLING": Lording. (references)

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Usage Frequency: LORDLING

"LORDLING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "LORDLING" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LORDLING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lordling

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LORDLING

Language Translations for "LORDLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

signorotto, piccolo tiranno. (various references)

   

Manx

  

chiarneen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ordlinglay

   

Romanian

  

nobil sãrac, domn tânãr. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

küçük lord. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tiểu quý tộc, ông vua nhỏ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LORDLING

Derivations

Words beginning with "LORDLING": lordlings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LORDLING"

Words rhyming with "LORDLING" (pronounced 'Lord"ling'): Airling, Bantling, Bardling, Birdling, Cageling, Catling, Chickling, Courtling, Cringeling, Cutling, Dearling, Decolling, Dwarfling, Fiveling, fledgeling, Flockling, Fopling, foundling, Fourling, Furzeling, Gesling, Gnatling, gosling, groundling, Homeling, Manling, Meazling, Merling, Mestling, Monthling, Moonling, Morling, Mortling, Nerfling, Nursling, Oakling, Popeling, Porkling, Prickling, Princeling, Proudling, Punkling, Rashling, Reckling, Reedling, ridgeling, Rockling, sapling, Scabling, schilling. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LORDLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: drolling.

Words within the letters "d-g-i-l-l-n-o-r"

-1 letter: dolling, lording, rolling.

-2 letters: doling.

-3 letters: dingo, doing, drill, droll, giron, grill, grind, groin, indol, lingo.

-4 letters: dill, ding, diol, dirl, doll, dong, gild, gill, gird, girl, girn, giro, gold, grid, grin, idol, inro, iron, lido, ling, lino, lion, loin, long, lord, lorn, nill, nodi, noil, noir, nori, rill, rind, ring, roil, roll.

-5 letters: dig.

 Words containing the letters "d-g-i-l-l-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: lordlings, worldling.

 

+2 letters: cordelling, pollarding, worldlings.

 

+3 letters: deploringly, remodelling.

 

+4 letters: billboarding.

 

+5 letters: bloodcurdling, decontrolling, dendrological, gradationally, overpedalling, radiolabeling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LORDLING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 4F 52 44 4C 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    ---    .-.    -..    .-..    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01001111 01010010 01000100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#79 &#82 &#68 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 004F 0052 0044 004C 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4649523846434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams 		9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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