put on airs

1. 1.

   act like the master of

   “He is lording it over the students”

   Synonymslord it overqueen it overact superior

   Broaderact

Questions about put on airs

What does put on airs mean?

put on airs means "act like the master of".

What is another word for put on airs?

Close synonyms include lord it over, queen it over, act superior. 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 put on airs a common word?

put on airs 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.