老爷 (老爺) lǎoye

1. lǎoye noun lord; master
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '老爺'; Guoyu '老爺' 2)
2. lǎoye noun maternal grandfather
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Family , Concept: Relative 亲戚
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '老爺'; Guoyu '老爺' 4)
3. lǎoye noun gentleman; aristocrat
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '老爺' 1)
4. lǎoye noun husband
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: A respectful form of address for a wife to her husband (Guoyu '老爺' 3)

Contained in

• 青天大老爷(青天大老爺) just and incorruptible official
• 老爷子(老爺子) my (you etc) old father; polite appellation for an elderly male
• 官老爷(官老爺) nickname for official
• 老爷爷(老爺爺) father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather
• 老爷车(老爺車) classic car
• 天老爷(天老爺) God; Heavens

Also contained in

老爷岭

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第四十二回 Chapter 42 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 72
• 第九回 Chapter 9 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 43
• 第二回 Chapter 93 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 39
• 第二回 Chapter 99 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 38
• 第五十三回 Chapter 53 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 32
• 第十二回 Chapter 12 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 28
• 第三十一回 Chapter 31 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 25
• 第五十四回 Chapter 54 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 23
• 第三十回 Chapter 30 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 23
• 第六回 Chapter 6 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 23

Collocations

• 看老爷 (看老爺) 你且下去看老爺醒也未 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十五回 Chapter 45 — count: 4
• 引老爷 (引老爺) 敢來引老爺做甚麼 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十九回 Chapter 19 — count: 4
• 唐老爷 (唐老爺) 唐老爺 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第三十六回 Chapter 36 — count: 4
• 老爷放心 (老爺放心) 老爺放心 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第四十四回 Chapter 44 — count: 3
• 送老爷 (送老爺) 教他快送老爺的袈裟出來 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第十七回 Chapter 17 — count: 3
• 请老爷 (請老爺) 請老爺散了福 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第十八回 Chapter 18 — count: 3
• 侍老爷 (侍老爺) 伏侍老爺安置了再回 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第三十六回 Chapter 36 — count: 3
• 老爷性 (老爺性) 休要引老爺性發 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二十三回 Chapter 23 — count: 3
• 蒙老爷 (蒙老爺) 敢蒙老爺盛情 — Journey to the West 西遊記, 第四十七回 Chapter 47 — count: 2
• 老爷生长 (老爺生長) 老爺生長石碣村 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十九回 Chapter 19 — count: 2