lairdship

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or condition of being a laird. Scotland,countable,uncountable
    — He would as soon have thought of wearing a white linen shirt or having the lairdship of a barony, as of getting ham to his breakfast.
  2. The area of land owned by a laird. countable,uncountable
    — 'Laird,' said she (for so she always called him, though his lairdship was of the smallest), 'will ye tell them to bury me whaur I'll lie across at your feet?'

词形变化

lairdships plural

词源

Borrowed from Middle Scots lairdschip (modern Scots lairdship), from Early Scots lardschip, from Old English hlāfordsċipe; by surface analysis, laird + -ship and a doublet of lordship.
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