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An overlord in the English feudal system was a lord of a manor who had subinfeudated a particular manor, estate or fee, to a tenant. The tenant thenceforth owed to the overlord one of a variety of services, usually military service or serjeanty, depending on which form of tenure (i.e. feudal tenancy contract) the estate was held under.
The meaning of OVERLORD is a lord over other lords : a lord paramount. How to use overlord in a sentence.
A lord ranking above other lords, esp. in the feudal system. Any person having great authority or power over others. A ruler of other rulers. The various tribal chieftains met each spring to elect an overlord that would lead them in time of war.
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Overlord (Japanese: オーバーロード, Hepburn: Ōbārōdo) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kugane Maruyama and illustrated by so-bin. It began serialization online in 2010, before being acquired by Enterbrain. Sixteen volumes have been published since July 2012.
a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord. a person of great influence, authority, power, or the like: the overlords of industry.
overlord. If you refer to someone as an overlord, you mean that they have great power and are likely to use it in a bad way. The running of Welsh rugby was left in chaos yesterday after a vote of no confidence in the game's overlords. In former times, an overlord was someone who had power over many people.
a person in a position of power, especially in the past. Synonym. master. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. People in charge of or controlling other people. acephalous. administrator. anti-management. authority. bureaucrat. controller. council. counter-power. dean. deputy. manipulator. mistress. movers and shakers. multi-headed. officer.
