Lord

The term Lord is an honorific used to indicate that a man or his father has rank. "Lord" originally referred to the master of a household. In modern English, it is used for a marquis, earl, count, viscount, baron or baronet or the son of duke or marquis. It came to be extended to non-peerage ranks, eg. Lord Mayor or Lord Chamberlain, and church ranks, eg. Bishop of Upper Smithbury, Lord Clancy.

For landed peers, it is used with the name of their estate, not their first name. Hence, you could refer to the Earl of Cumnor as Lord Cumnor.

A Lord in the SCA

Lord is the honorific given in the SCA to male holders of an Award of Arms. Any male participants are entitled to be called m'lord as a polite form of address but this implies no specific rank.

Other ranks tend to use different honorifics, eg. Your Excellency for barons.

Also see

• Lady

Alternate titles

A persona with the title of Lord may wish to use one of the following alternate titles.

Language	Alternate Form
Albanian	Zoti/Bujar
Arabic	Sayyid
Breton	Aotrou
Catalan	Senyor
Czech	Lord, Pán
Danish	Herre
Dutch	Gebieder
Estonian	Lord
Finnish	Herra
French	Seigneur, Monsieur
German	Herr
Greek	Kírios
Hebrew	Reb
Hungarian	Gyula
Icelandic	Drottinn
Irish Gaelic	Tiarna
Italian	Signore
Latin	Dominus
Middle Norwegian	Heera
Old English	Hlaford
Polish	Pan
Portuguese	Senhor
Romanian	Domn
Russian	Pomestnik
Scots Gaelic	Tighearna
Spanish	Señor/Don
Swedish	Herre
Turkish	Efendi
Welsh	Arglwydd/Boneddig/Bonheddwr