• (RP) IPA: /lɛːd/
• (GA) IPA: /lɛəɹd/
• (Scotland) IPA: /lerd/

laird (plural lairds)

1. (chiefly, Scotland) The owner of a Scottish#Adjective|Scottish estate; a member of the landed#Adjective|landed gentry, a landowner. [from 14th c.]
   • 1816, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Antiquary. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, OCLC 226649000 ↗, page 27 ↗:

     [H]e brought with him money enough to purchase the small estate of Monkbarns, then sold by a dissipated laird to whose father it had been gifted, with other church lands, upon the dissolution of the great and wealthy monastery to which it had belonged.

2. (chiefly, Scotland, historical) Often in the form Laird of, followed by a patronymic: a Scottish clan chief#Noun|chief.

laird (lairds, present participle lairding; past and past participle lairded)

1. (transitive, Scotland) Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act#Verb|act haughtily or to domineer; to lord#Verb|lord (it over).

1. Surname