Lord vs King - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between lord and king

is that lord is the master of the servants of a household; the master of a feudal manor while king is a male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.

As verbs the difference between lord and king

is that lord is domineer or act like a lord while king is to crown king, to make (a person) king.

As proper nouns the difference between lord and king

is that lord is the God of Abraham and the Jewish scriptures, God the Father; the Godhead while King is the title of a king.

As an interjection Lord

is An interjection variously expressing astonishment, surprise, resignation.

lord
English
(Lord)
Noun
(en noun)
(label) The master of the servants of a household; (label) the master of a feudal manor

*c. 950 , (Lindisfarne Gospels), Matt. xxiv. 46

*:Eadig ðe]] ðone miððy cymes hlaferd his on-fand sua [[doing, doende.

*1611 , (King James Bible), Matt. xxiv. 46

*:Ble??ed]] is that finde [[so, ?o doing.

*1600 , (William Shakespeare), , iii. ii. 167 ff.

*:Por . ...But now, I was the Lord

*:of this faire man?ion]], of my [[servants, ?eruants,

*:Queene]] oer [[myself, my ?elfe...

*1794 , E. Christian in (William Blackstone), (Commentaries on the Laws of England) , II. 418

*:Lords of manors are distinguished from other land-owners with regard to the game.

#(label) The male head of a household, a father or husband.

#*831 , charter in Henry Sweet, The oldest English texts , 445

#*:Ymbe ðet lond et cert ðe hire eðelmod hire hlabard salde.

#*1594 , (William Shakespeare), "(The Rape of Lucrece)"

#*:...thou worthie Lord ,

#*:Of that vnworthie]] wife that [[greets, greeteth thee

#*c. 1591 , (William Shakespeare), (The Taming of the Shrew) (1623), v. ii. 131 f.

#*:Pet. Katherine , I charge thee, tell the?e]] [[head-strong, head-?trong women,

#*:What dutie]] they doe owe their Lords and [[husbands, hu?bands!

#*1611 , (King James Bible), Gen. xviii. 12

#*:Therefore Sarah laughed within her ?elfe]], , my lord being old [[also, al?o?

#*1816 , (Jane Austen), , III. xvi. 300

#*:Yes, here I am, my good friend; and here I have been so long, that anywhere else I should think it necessary to apologise; but, the truth is, that I am waiting for my lord and master.

#(label) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession

#*ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 601 f.

#*:Als]] oure lauerd has [[heaven, heuen in hand

#*:Sua]] [[should, suld man be lauerd of land.

#*1480 , Waterford Archives in the 10th Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1885), App. v. 316

#*:All suche lordes as have gutters betuxte]] [[their, thar houses.

#*ante'' 1637 , (Ben Jonson), ''Sad Shepherd , ii. i. 36

#*:A mightie Lord of Swine!

#*1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro)'s Æneis , xii

#*:Turnus...

#*:Wrench'd from his feeble hold the shining Sword;

#*:And plung'd it in the Bosom of its Lord .

#*1874 , J. H. Collins, Principles of Metal Mining (1875), Gloss. 139/2

#*:Lord''''', the owner of the land in which a mine is situated is called the ‘' lord ’.

One possessing similar mastery over others; (label) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler

*c. 893 , Orosius's History , i. i. §13

*:Ohthere sæde his hlaforde , Ælfrede cyninge, þæt...

* 1530 , John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement , 680/1

It is a pytuouse]] case... whan subjectes rebell [[against, agaynst their naturall lorde .

* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , xii. 70

Man over men He made not Lord .

# (label) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king

# A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one

#* ante 1375 , William of Palerne (1867), l.4539

To fare out as fast with his fader to speke, & with lordesse of þat]] [[land, lond.

#* ante'' 1420 , T. Hoccleve, ''De Regimine Principum , 442

Men myghten lordis knowe

By there]] arraye, from [[other, oþir folke.

#* 1453 , Rolls of Parliament, V. 266/2

If such persone bee of the estate of a Lord , as Duc]], Marques, Erle, Viscount or [[baron, Baron.

#* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (The life and death of King Richard the Second) , iv.i.18

Princes, and noble Lords :

What an?wer]] I make to this [[base, ba?e man?

#* 1614 , J. Selden, Titles of Honor , 59

Our English name Lord , whereby we and the Scots stile]] all such as are of the Greater [[nobility, Nobilitie i. Barons, as also Bishops.

#* 1900 July 21, Daily Express , 5/7

The Englishman of to-day still dearly loves a lord .

# A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones

#* 1526 , W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection , i. sig. Bviiiv

Farre]] excellyng the state of lordes , erles, dukes or [[kings, kynges.

#* 1826 , (Benjamin Disraeli), Vivian Grey , II. iii. iii. 26

The Marquess played off the two Lords and the Baronet against his former friend.

One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)

* ante'' 1300 , ''Cursor Mundi , 782

O wityng bath]] [[good, god and ill ?ee suld be lauerds at ?our will.

* 1398 , John Trevisa translating Bartholomew de Glanville's De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495), viii. xvi. 322

The sonne]] is the lorde of [[planets, planetes.

1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro) as (Georgics) , iii

Love is Lord of all.

* 1992 November 18, (Larry David), (Seinfeld) , 4.11: "(The Contest)":

But are you still master of your domain?

I am king of the county. You?

Lord of the manor.

# The magnates of a trade or profession

#* 1823 , W. Cobbett, Rural Rides (1885), I. 399

Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing!

(label) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time,

* (Geoffrey Chaucer), Treatise on the Astrolabe , ii. §4:

The assendent]], & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat, as thus, a fortunat assendent clepen they whan hows of the [[ascendant, assendent.

A hunchback.

*1699 , B.E., A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew :

Lord , a very crooked, deformed... Person.

Sixpence.

* 1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement , 782/1:

Twenty years ago you might hear a sixpence described as a ‘Lord ’ meaning ‘Lord of the Manor’; that is, a tanner.

Derived terms
* lord mesne, lord paramount, lord in gross, lord of the manor * House of Lords, Lords Temporal, Lords Spiritual * drunk as a lord * lord-in-waiting, lord of the bedchamber, lord superior * lords of creation * warlord * landlord * lord-fish
Synonyms
* drighten, possessor, proprietor, sovereign
See also
* lady
Verb
(en verb)
Domineer or act like a lord.

(label) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms
* lord it over
References
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king
English
(wikipedia king)
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .
Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic), (l) (archaic)
Noun
(en noun)
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.

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A powerful or influential person.

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Something that has a preeminent position.

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A component of certain games.

#The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.

#A playing card with the image of a king on it.

#A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.

A king skin.

:

A male dragonfly; a drake.

Coordinate terms
* (monarch) emperor, empress, maharajah, prince, princess, queen, regent, royalty, viceroy * (playing card) ace, jack, joker, queen
Derived terms
* dragonking * King Billy * king cake * king of the hill * kingdom * kingly * kingmaker * kingmanship * King's English * king's ransom * Kingston * priest-king
See also
* *
Verb
(en verb)
To crown king, to make (a person) king.

* 1982 , South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review , Volume 47, page 16,

The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play .

* 2008 , William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (editor), Macbeth , Introduction, page 24,

One narrative is the kinging and unkinging of Macbeth; the other narrative is the attack on Banquo's line and that line's eventual accession and supposed Jacobean survival through Malcolm's successful counter-attack on Macbeth.

To rule over as king.

* (William Shakespeare), , Act 2, Scene 4,

And let us do it with no show of fear; / No, with no more than if we heard that England / Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance; / For, my good liege, she is so idly king’d , / Her sceptre so fantastically borne / By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth, / That fear attends her not.

To perform the duties of a king.

* 1918 , Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman , Volume 35, page 675,

He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.

* 2001 , Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning , page 6,

Second, Mentor (the old man) combined the wisdom of experience with the sensitivity of a fawn in his attempts to convey kinging skills to young Telemachus.

To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.

* 1917 , Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself , page 32,

The seating arrangement of the temple was the Almanach de Gotha of Congregation Emanu-el. Old Ben Reitman, patriarch among the Jewish settlers of Winnebago, who had come over an immigrant youth, and who now owned hundreds of rich farm acres, besides houses, mills and banks, kinged it from the front seat of the center section.

To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.

* 1957 , Bertram Vivian Bowden (editor), Faster Than Thought: A Symposium on Digital Computing Machines , page 302,

If the machine does this, it will lose only one point, and as it is not looking far enough ahead, it cannot see that it has not prevented its opponent from kinging but only postponed the evil day.

* 1986 , Rick DeMarinis, The Burning Women of Far Cry , page 100,

I was about to make a move that would corner a piece that she was trying to get kinged , but I slid my checker back.

To dress and perform as a drag king.

* 2008 , Audrey Yue, King Victoria: Asian Drag Kings, Postcolonial Female Masculinity, and Hybrid Sexuality in Australia'', in Fran Martin, Peter Jackson, Audrey Yue, Mark McLelland (editors), ''AsiaPacifQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities , page 266,

Through the ex-centric diaspora, kinging in postcolonial Australia has become a site of critical hybridity where diasporic female masculinities have emerged through the contestations of "home" and "host" cultures.

Etymology 2

Noun
(en noun)
(Chinese musical instrument)

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