overling

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Noun

overling (plural overlings)

1. (rare) A superior.
   • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, Mesopotamia (poem)

     But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, [...]

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

     Reflex laughs from the underlings present, though only grim smiles from the overlings.

2. (UK dialectal) A ruler; master.

Antonyms

• underling

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