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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
lordless is an adjective meaning "having no lord or master". It carries one recorded sense.
having no lord or master
“harsh punishments for sturdy vagabonds and masterless men”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lordless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.