(n.) A king who has sovereignty over inferior kings or ruling princes.
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Overlord
Definition:
(n.) One who is lord over another or others; a superior lord; a master.
Example Sentences:
(1) What he liked best was to talk to the cricket pro, Bert Wensley, formerly of Sussex, about such heroes as Maurice Tate, Duleepsinhji and HT Bartlett, and to encourage Bert to enlarge on his reasons for describing Sir Home Gordon, Bart, the overlord of Sussex cricket, as a "shit" - the first time we heard that word.
(2) It was launched on Wednesday with a party at the Mandarin Oriental hotel next door – an event so glittering that Formula One overlord Bernie Ecclestone was in attendance and überchef Heston Blumenthal did the catering.
(3) Believe the hype and he was a cross between a mafioso overlord and "HRH Victor Meldrew" (the epithet is David Starkey's).
(4) If the oligarchs of Silicon Valley feel empowered to sink outlets that they disagree with, our robot overlords will be here sooner than we think.
(5) Deliciously, The Internship is distributed by Searchlight's corporate overlord, 21st Century Fox.
(6) A year would have been the sort of seemly distance that might permit us to stop worrying and love our all-powerful tech overlords again.
(7) Bear that in mind while the feral overlords, with no real life experience, steal from the poor to bail out the rich.
(8) Seeing as I've already broken the fashion ranks by revealing the Great 57th Birthday Denim Swag Haul, I shall further anger my style overlords by confessing I strongly disagree with this rule.
(9) Instead of being a geeky orphan with money problems, the new Peter Parker (played by Andrew Garfield) was set up as a brooding teen (still with money problems) whose lack of mum and dad is linked in some mysterious manner to the seemingly omnipotent Oscorp and its shadowy overlord.
(10) She will be our discount dictator, perhaps, when her permatanned, pouting overlord has annexed us as a puppet state.
(11) Humans are part of nature, not its overlords, and caring for ourselves and for nature is inseparable in caring for our common home.
(12) Chinese people's long-standing animus toward their erstwhile colonial overlord is, of course, very real.
(13) As the US disengaged, Iran stepped in and, in the years since the US withdrawal, has acted as an overlord in neighbouring Iraq.
(14) This is entirely unfair to This Is 40 , no matter what one thinks of Apatow and his current status as Total Overlord of American Comedy.
(15) He will remain editor-in-chief, which he says will be more than a titular role, but plans to be an "enabler" rather than an overlord.
(16) Take out the results against the Bundesliga’s southern overlords and you’ll get an average points return against the 16 others in the league that has markedly decreased from 2.34 (2011-12) to 2 (2012-13) and 2.1 (2013-14).
(17) Its fate, and its chaotic confrontation with the eurozone’s overlords, is going to shape all of Europe’s future.
(18) On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the launch of Operation Overlord , Livingston has detailed memorabilia relating to the allied commander and the wartime president Franklin D Roosevelt , as well as other White House-related and sporting items.
(19) "I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords," Jennings wrote next to his last answer, displaying one human quality conspicuously absent in Watson – a sense of humour.
(20) My Dalek is not fit to serve at the court of his mighty citrus overlord.