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timelord en · NOUN

Etymology

From time + lord. From "Time Lord", the term for a member of a specific race of time travellers from the long-running BBC television series Doctor Who.

Meanings

1. A person who has mastered time travel.
   • Not doing a timelord, ping ponging back and forth through time. 2007, Carmel McConnell, The Happiness Plan:
   • ...a kind of timelord who rewrites himself as he passes across timezones and geographical locations, often within the same sentence. 2001, Simon Ward, Negotiating Positions:
   • ...a mind that could fly to all points in the cosmos seemingly at will, able to slip between time, across the ages like some omnipotent, hip hop timelord. 2004, Neil Kulkarni, Hip Hop: Bring the Noise:
   • A renegade timelord from the future who liked to meddle with history? If this were so, perhaps he really had talked with Christ and the kings of bygone days. 1999, Thomas Slemen, Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People:

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