Other forms: lairds
A laird is a Scottish landowner of an estate. The local laird, the laird's house, become a laird.
It is the Scots form of lord and it names a landowner rather than a peer, so a laird holds no title in the peerage. Souvenir plots sold with the claim that they make you a laird confer nothing at all, and the Scottish authorities have said so.
1nounlairdA Scottish landowner of an estate.
“The laird owned most of the land around the village, including the loch and the hills.”
laird is a landowner.
LAIRD → the LORD of the land
The lord of the land in Scotland: he owns the hills you are walking on and the house at the end of the road.
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Scots laird is a variant of lord, from Old English hlaford, the keeper of the bread.
Middle English
lard
Scots
laird
English, today
laird
The noun is borrowed from Scots laird, from northern or Scottish Middle English lard, laverd, a variant of lord. The verb is derived from the noun. a doublet of hlaford and lord.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA