Lord vs. Noble — What's the Difference?

Lord is an appellation for a person or deity who has authority, control, or power over others, acting as a master, a chief, or a ruler. The appellation can also denote certain persons who hold a title of the peerage in the United Kingdom, or are entitled to courtesy titles.

Belonging by rank, title, or birth to the aristocracy

A king.

Having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles

A territorial magnate.

(especially in former times) a person of noble rank or birth

The proprietor of a manor.

A former English gold coin first issued in 1351.

Lords The House of Lords.

Possessing hereditary rank in a political system or social class derived from a feudalistic stage of a country's development.

Used as a form of address for a marquis, an earl, or a viscount.

Having or showing qualities of high moral character, such as courage, generosity, or honor

Used as the usual style for a baron.

Proceeding from or indicative of such a character; showing magnanimity

Used as a courtesy title for a younger son of a duke or marquis.

Grand and stately in appearance; majestic

Used as a title for certain high officials and dignitaries

(Chemistry) Inactive or inert.

Used as a title for a bishop.

A member of the nobility.

God.

A gold coin formerly used in England, worth half of a mark.

(Christianity) Jesus.

An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.

A man of renowned power or authority.

(historical) A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.

A man who has mastery in a given field or activity.

Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.

(Archaic) The male head of a household.

Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.

(Archaic) A husband.

Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.

To insist upon or boast about so as to act in a domineering or superior manner

Both isohedral and isogonal.

To act in a domineering or superior manner

Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.

To have a prominent or dominating position

Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.

To rule over

Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.

(obsolete) The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor

A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.

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

An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61 (in 1913).

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

A European fish; the lyrie.

One possessing similar mastery over others; (historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)

To make noble; to ennoble.

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

A titled peer of the realm

A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one

Having high moral qualities;

A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones

Impressive in appearance;

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

Of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times;

A magnate of a trade or profession.

Having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character;

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

Inert especially toward oxygen;

A hunchback.

Sixpence.

Domineer or act like a lord.

(transitive) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.

A hump-backed person; - so called sportively.

One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.

A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a baron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank.

A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc.

A husband.

One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.

The Supreme Being; Jehovah.

The Savior; Jesus Christ.

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

To rule or preside over as a lord.

To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; - sometimes with over; and sometimes with it in the manner of a transitive verb; as, rich students lording it over their classmates.

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

A person who has general authority over others

A titled peer of the realm

Make a lord of someone