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A laird is a person who owns a large stretch of land in Scotland — a country estate, farms, maybe a whole — not just a house with a garden. People still use it like a title: the laird of somewhere.
A laird一個laird是 is a person who owns a large stretch of land in Scotland在蘇格蘭擁有大片土地的人——a country estate, farms, maybe a whole hillside鄉間莊園、農場，甚至整片山坡都算——not just a house with a garden不只是有花園的一間房子。People still use it like a title大家還是會把它當頭銜用：the laird of somewhere某地的laird。
It is the word that grew beside English lord, so it sounds old, proud, and a bit grand.
It它 is是 the Scots word that grew beside English lord跟英文lord一起演變出來的蘇格蘭語詞，so it sounds old, proud, and a bit grand所以聽起來古老、驕傲，還帶點氣派。
Though actually, a laird is not always a ‘lord’ in the English sense. Many lairds are , not nobles who sit in parliament, and the word can turn teasing when someone ‘acts like the laird’ of an office or a pub.
Though actually不過其實，a laird is not always a 'lord' in the English sense一個laird不一定等於英文裡的「lord」。Many lairds很多laird are landowners只是地主，not nobles who sit in parliament不是坐在國會裡的貴族，and當 someone 'acts like the laird'有人「act like the laird」 of an office or a pub在辦公室或酒吧裡擺架子時，the word can turn teasing這個字就可能帶點調侃意味。
You meet it in Scottish stories, travel writing, and names tied to a place. There is a rare verb, to laird it, meaning to play the big owner, but the noun is the one that matters.
You meet it你會在 in Scottish stories, travel writing, and names tied to a place蘇格蘭故事、旅遊文章，還有跟地方有關的名字裡遇到它。There is also還有 a rare verb一個少見的動詞，to laird it「to laird it」，meaning意思是 to play the big owner擺出大地主的樣子，but the noun is the one that matters但重要的還是這個名詞。
組成Borrowed from Scots laird, from older northern or Scottish forms (lard, laverd) of the same word as English lord. A doublet of lord: same ancestor, Scottish path.
同家族的字
- lordthe English form of the same old word; a laird is the Scots landowner, not always an English noble
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Lairdname
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A surname.
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lairdnoun/lɛːd/
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historicalA feudal lord in Scottish contexts.
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An aristocrat, particularly in Scottish contexts and in reference to the chiefs of the Scottish clans.
- Now Wiſe, and Rich, and Worthie, and Wonderful, and Faithful and True, and Rare, & Charitable, and Great Laird of Carnwath, Be not Prowd, altho I Commend you at ſuch a Rate behind your back and yet never ſaw You...
- Once I was call'd a great Fife laird, I dwelt not far from the Hall-yard: [...] O! but it's long and many a year, Since laſt my feet did travel here. I find great change in old lairds places, I know the ground, but not the faces, Where ſhall I turn me firſt about, For my acquaintance is worn out?
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A landowner, particularly in Scottish contexts.
- In Scotland, the traditional term for the owner of an upland estate is the ‘laird’. [...] Well into the post-war period, the lairds of large estates were generally treated deferentially by local people but times have changed, [...] It would be a mistake to equate the title ‘laird’ to a British ‘lord’, as it does not confer any political standing, but the fact that some of Scotland’s lairds sit in the House of Lords can confuse the outsider.
lairdverb/lɛːd/
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Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over).
- But cauld was his hearth ere his youdith was o'er, / An' he delved on the lands he had lairded before; / Yet though he beggared his ha' an' deserted his lea, / Contented he roamed on the banks o' the Dee.
- You'd stand with a single malt, / in braces, admiring a Grinling, / while I did a fingertip search of your face, / [...] / discovering the recesses of baronial you, / lairding it in a rental estate / we were about to lose.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。