lords temporal

1. 1.

   the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain

   Synonymssecond estate

   Broaderestate of the realm

   United Kingdom · France

Questions about lords temporal

What does lords temporal mean?

lords temporal means "the nobility in France and the peerage in Britain".

What is another word for lords temporal?

Close synonyms include second estate. 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 lords temporal a common word?

lords temporal 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.