lord chancellor

1. 1.

   the highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords

   SynonymsLord High Chancellor

   Broadercabinet minister

   United Kingdom

Questions about lord chancellor

What does lord chancellor mean?

lord chancellor means "the highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords".

What is another word for lord chancellor?

Close synonyms include Lord High Chancellor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lord chancellor a common word?

lord chancellor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.