LLOYD

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• LLOYD (noun)
  The noun LLOYD has 1 sense:

1. United States comic actor in silent films; he used physical danger as a source of comedy (1893-1971)

  Familiarity information: LLOYD used as a noun is very rare.

• LLOYD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States comic actor in silent films; he used physical danger as a source of comedy (1893-1971)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Harold Clayton Lloyd; Harold Lloyd; Lloyd

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

 Context examples 

There I saw the Exchange and the Bank and Lloyd’s Coffee House, with the brown-coated, sharp-faced merchants and the hurrying clerks, the huge horses and the busy draymen.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

About a week subsequently to the incidents above narrated, Miss Temple, who had written to Mr. Lloyd, received his answer: it appeared that what he said went to corroborate my account.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had four telegrams, one each day since we started, and all to the same effect: that the Czarina Catherine had not been reported to Lloyd's from anywhere.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have spent the whole day, said he, over Lloyd’s registers and files of the old papers, following the future career of every vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in ’83.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We were all wild with excitement yesterday when Godalming got his telegram from Lloyd's.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Well, well! who knows what may happen?" said Mr. Lloyd, as he got up.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These not so important as to go in your list of the shipping in the Times, and so we go, by suggestion of Lord Godalming, to your Lloyd's, where are note of all ships that sail, however so small.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Is that your mistress, nurse?" asked Mr. Lloyd.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"The fall did not make you ill; what did, then?" pursued Mr. Lloyd when Bessie was gone.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Lloyd a second time produced his snuff-box.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)