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than
English
Alternative forms
- 'n (nonstandard)
- thanne (obsolete)
- then (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English than, thanne, from Old English þanne, a variant of þonne (“then, since, because”), from Proto-Germanic *þan (“at that, at that time, then”), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (“demonstrative pronoun, that”). Cognate with Dutch dan (“than”), German denn (“than”), German dann (“then”). Doublet of then.
Pronunciation
- (stressed) enPR: th?n, th?n, IPA(key): /ðæn/, /ð?n/
- Rhymes: -æn, -?n
- (unstressed) enPR: th?n, IPA(key): /ð?n/, /ðn?/
- Homophone: then (unstressed or, for some speakers, stressed)
Conjunction
than
- Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.
- 1665, Stillingfleet, Laud, Carwell, A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion:
- Answer me if you can, any other way, than because the Scriptures, which are infallible, Say so.
- 1665, Stillingfleet, Laud, Carwell, A rational account of the grounds of Protestant religion:
- (obsolete outside dialects, usually used with for) Because; for.
- 1854, Reformation series:
- If thou say yes, then puttest thou on Christ (that is, the wisdome of God, the Father) unkunning, unpower, or euil will: for than he could not make his rule so good as an other did his.
- 1854, Reformation series:
Preposition
than
- introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.
- Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.
- A player than whom none is more skillful.
Usage notes
Usage prescriptivists have a number of rules concerning than. In formal grammar, than is not a preposition to govern the oblique case (although it has been used as such by writers such as William Shakespeare, whose 1600 play Julius Caesar contains the line A man no mightier than thyself or me. . ., and Samuel Johnson, who wrote No man had ever more discernment than him, in finding out the ridiculous.). Than functions as both conjunction and preposition; when it is used as a conjunction, it governs the nominative case, and when a preposition, the oblique case. To determine the case of a pronoun following "than", a writer can look to implied words and determine how they would relate to the pronoun.
Examples :
- You are a better swimmer than she.
- represents You are a better swimmer than she is.
- therefore You are a better swimmer than her is, according to such prescriptivists, a solecism.
- They like you more than her.
- represents They like you more than they like her.
- therefore They like you more than she is a solecism, if it attempts to represent the previous sentence. It may be correct, however, if it represents They like you more than she likes you.
Some prescriptivists insist that whom must follow than (not who); although according to the above rule, who would be the "correct" form. Critics of this often cite this mandatory exception as evidence that the prescriptivist rule is logically erroneous, in addition to its being inconsistent with well-established usage.
Translations
Adverb
than (not comparable)
- (now chiefly dialectal or a misspelling) At that time; then.
Anagrams
- -anth, Hnat, Nath, ha'n't, ha'nt, han't, hant, tahn
Cornish
Noun
than
- Aspirate mutation of tan.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- thanne
Etymology
From Old English þonne.
Conjunction
than
- than
Descendants
- English: than
Adverb
than
- then
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
- And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,
Than wolde he speke no word but Latyn.- And when he had drunk all the wine
He would not speak a word other than Latin
- And when he had drunk all the wine
- And whan that he wel dronken hadde the wyn,
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
Descendants
- English: then
Old Dutch
Adverb
than
- then
References
- Altniederfränkischer Psalm 2
Old High German
Alternative forms
- thanne, thanna, dhanne, danne, danna
Adverb
than
- then, there, when, at that time
Conjunction
than
- from there, therefore, if, because, after
- than, (comparative)
References
- Braune, Wilhelm. Althochdeutsches Lesebuch, zusammengestellt und mit Glossar versehen
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [t?a?n??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [t?a????]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [t?a????]
- Homophone: thang
Etymology 1
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese ? (“coal”, SV: thán).
Noun
than • (?, ?)
- coal
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese ? (SV: thán).
Verb
than
- to complain
Derived terms
Welsh
Preposition
than
- Aspirate mutation of tan.
Mutation
than From the web:
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lord
English
Wikiquote
Etymology
From Middle English lord and lorde (attested from the 15th century), from earlier (14th century) lourde and other variants which dropped the intervocalic consonant of earlier lowerd, louerd, loverd, laford, and lhoaverd; from Old English hl?ford < hl?fweard, a compound of hl?f (“bread”) + weard (“guardian”); see loaf and ward. The term was already being applied broadly prior to the literary development of Old English and was influenced by its common use to translate Latin dominus. Compare Scots laird (“lord”), preserving a separate vowel development (from northern/Scottish Middle English lard, laverd), the Old English compound hl?f-?ta (“servant”, literally “bread-eater”), and modern English lady, from Old English hl?fd??e (“bread-kneader”). The Middle English word laford was borrowed by Icelandic, where it survives as lávarður.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /l??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /l??d/
- Homophone: lored (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
- Homophone: laud (in non-rhotic accents)
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Noun
lord (plural lords)
- (obsolete) The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor
- 1611, King James Bible, Matthew 24:46
- Ble??ed is that ?eruant, whome his Lord when he commeth, ?hal finde ?o doing.
- 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act III, scene 2, 167 ff.
- Por. ...But now, I was the Lord
- of this faire man?ion, mai?ter of my ?eruants,
- Queene oer 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.
- (archaic) 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 greeteth thee
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (1623), act V, scene 2, 131 f.
- Pet. Katherine, I charge thee, tell the?e head-?trong women,
- What dutie they doe owe their Lords and hu?bands!
- 1611, King James Bible, Genesis 18:12
- Therefore Sarah laughed within her ?elfe, ?aying, After I am waxed old, ?hall I haue plea?ure, my lord being old al?o?
- 1816, Jane Austen, Emma, 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.
- 831, charter in Henry Sweet, The oldest English texts, 445
- (archaic) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
- ante 1300, Cursor Mundi, 601 f.
- Als oure lauerd has heuen in hand
- Sua 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 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’.
- ante 1300, Cursor Mundi, 601 f.
- 1611, King James Bible, Matthew 24:46
- 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)
- 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 agaynst their naturall lorde.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, xii. 70
- Man over men He made not Lord.
- (historical) 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 lond.
- ante 1420, T. Hoccleve, De Regimine Principum, 442
- Men myghten lordis knowe
- By there arraye, from 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.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, The life and death of King Richard the Second, act IV, scene 1, 18
- Princes, and noble Lords:
- What an?wer ?hall I make to this 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 Nobilitie i. Barons, as also Bishops.
- 1900 July 21, Daily Express, 5/7
- The Englishman of to-day still dearly loves a lord.
- ante 1375, William of Palerne (1867), l.4539
- (obsolete, uncommon) 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 kynges.
- 1826, Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey, II. iii. iii. 26
- The Marquess played off the two Lords and the Baronet against his former friend.
- 1526, W. Bonde, Pylgrimage of Perfection, i. sig. Bviiiv
- c. 893, Orosius's History, i. i. §13
- One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
- ante 1300, Cursor Mundi, 782
- O wityng bath 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 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.
- A magnate of a trade or profession.
- The Tobacco Lords were a group of Scottish merchants and slave traders who in the 18th century made enormous fortunes by trading in tobacco.
- 1823, W. Cobbett, Rural Rides (1885), I. 399
- Oh, Oh! The cotton Lords are tearing!
- ante 1300, Cursor Mundi, 782
- (astrology) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.
- c. 1391, 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 þat no wykkid planete, as Saturne or Mars, or elles the tail of the dragoun, is in þe hows of the assendent.
- c. 1391, Geoffrey Chaucer, Treatise on the Astrolabe, ii. §4:
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) A hunchback.
- 1699, B.E., A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew:
- Lord, a very crooked, deformed... Person.
- 1699, B.E., A new dictionary of the terms ancient and modern of the canting crew:
- (Britain, Australia, via Cockney rhyming slang, obsolete) 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.
- 1933 November 16, Times Literary Supplement, 782/1:
Synonyms
- (master, owner): drighten, possessor, proprietor, sovereign
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
- lady
Verb
lord (third-person singular simple present lords, present participle lording, simple past and past participle lorded)
- (intransitive and transitive) Domineer or act like a lord.
- The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.
- (transitive) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.
Synonyms
- (made a lord): elevate, ennoble, invest
Derived terms
- (act like a lord): lord it over
Translations
References
- lord in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- lord at OneLook Dictionary Search
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l???/
Noun
lord
- indefinite accusative singular of lordur
Hungarian
Etymology
From English lord.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lord]
- Hyphenation: lord
- Rhymes: -ord
Noun
lord (plural lordok)
- lord (English nobleman or aristocrat)
Declension
References
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English lord.
Noun
lord m (invariable)
- lord (British aristocrat)
- gentleman
Middle English
Alternative forms
- (Early ME) lhoaverd, laford, loverd, louerd, lowerd
- lorde, lhord, lourd, lourde, laverd
Etymology
From Old English hl?ford, hl?fweard, in turn from hl?f (“bread, loaf”) + weard (“ward, guardian, keeper”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??rd/
- (Early ME) IPA(key): /?l??w?rd/, /?l??v?rd/
Noun
lord (plural lordes)
- lord (important man)
- Lord (title of God)
Derived terms
- landlorde
- lordlyng
- yere of our lord
Descendants
- English: lord
- Scots: laird
- Yola: loard
References
- “l?rd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English lord.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lôrd/
Noun
l?rd m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- lord (British title)
Declension
References
- “lord” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English lord.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lo?d/, [?lo?ð?]
- IPA(key): /?lo?/, [?lo?]
Noun
lord m (plural lores)
- lord (British title)
Related terms
- milord
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from English lord.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?o?d]
- Hyphenation: lord
Noun
lord (definite accusative lordu, plural lordlar)
- lord
- Hypernym: asilzade
Declension
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