LORD CHANCELLOR

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• LORD CHANCELLOR (noun)
  The noun LORD CHANCELLOR has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LORD CHANCELLOR used as a noun is very rare.

• LORD CHANCELLOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lord Chancellor; Lord High Chancellor

Hypernyms ("Lord Chancellor" is a kind of...):

cabinet minister (a person who is a member of the cabinet)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Now, you know, Copperfield, if I was Lord Chancellor, we couldn't do this!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He is memorializing the Lord Chancellor, or the Lord Somebody or other—one of those people, at all events, who are paid to be memorialized—about his affairs.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)