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Savior vs. Lord — What's the Difference?

Savior vs. Lord — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Savior and Lord

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Savior

A person who rescues another from harm, danger, or loss.

Lord

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.

Savior

Savior(Christianity) Jesus.

Lord

A king.

Savior

A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
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Lord

A territorial magnate.

Savior

(medicine) A child who is born to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.

Lord

The proprietor of a manor.

Savior

One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.

Lord

Lords The House of Lords.

Savior

Specifically: The (or our, your, etc.) Savior, he who brings salvation to men; Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.

Lord

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

Savior

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Lord

Used as the usual style for a baron.

Savior

A person who rescues you from harm or danger

Lord

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

Lord

Used as a title for certain high officials and dignitaries
Lord Chamberlain.
The Lord Mayor of London.

Lord

Used as a title for a bishop.

Lord

God.

Lord

(Christianity) Jesus.

Lord

A man of renowned power or authority.

Lord

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

Lord

(Archaic) The male head of a household.

Lord

(Archaic) A husband.

Lord

To insist upon or boast about so as to act in a domineering or superior manner
"He had lorded over her his self-proclaimed spiritual and poetic superiority" (David Leavitt).

Lord

To act in a domineering or superior manner
An upperclassman lording over the younger students.

Lord

To have a prominent or dominating position
The castle lords over the valley.

Lord

To rule over
Lorded over a vast empire.

Lord

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

Lord

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

Lord

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

Lord

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)

Lord

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

Lord

A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one

Lord

A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones

Lord

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

Lord

A magnate of a trade or profession.

Lord

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

Lord

A hunchback.

Lord

Sixpence.

Lord

Domineer or act like a lord.

Lord

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

Lord

A hump-backed person; - so called sportively.

Lord

One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor.
But now I was the lordOf this fair mansion.
Man over menHe made not lord.

Lord

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.

Lord

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.

Lord

A husband.
Thou worthy lordOf that unworthy wife that greeteth thee.

Lord

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.

Lord

The Supreme Being; Jehovah.

Lord

The Savior; Jesus Christ.

Lord

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

Lord

To rule or preside over as a lord.

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.
The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss.
I see them lording it in London streets.
And lorded over them whom now they serve.

Lord

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

Lord

A person who has general authority over others

Lord

A titled peer of the realm

Lord

Make a lord of someone

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