lady
IPA: ɫˈeɪdi
noun
- (historical) The mistress of a household.
- A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
- The feminine of lord.
- A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.
- A title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess, or baroness.
- (polite or used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
- (in the plural) A polite reference or form of address to women.
- (slang) Used to address a female.
- (ladies' or ladies) Toilets intended for use by women.
- (informal) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
- A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
- (slang) A queen (the playing card).
- (attributive, with a professional title) Who is a woman.
- (archaic) gastric mill, the triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.
- (UK, slang) A five-pound note. (Rhyming slang, Lady Godiva for fiver.)
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman’s breast.
- (chess, slang, rare) A queen.
- An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.
- (Wicca) A high priestess.
- The title for the (primary) female deity in female-centered religions.
- (in particular) The major supernatural figurehead in the Wiccan religion, a triune goddess split into the Mother, Maiden, and Crone.
- (Wicca) Alternative form of Lady. [An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.]
verb
- To address as “lady”.
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Examples of "lady" in Sentences
- The lady of the Spanish minister is a _lady_ in every sense of the word.
- 'Oh, she's no lady -- she's some common person -- no _lady_ would behave in that manner.'
- "Oh!" replied Spicer, who had heard of Sir Hercules and his lady, "so the _lady_ sent it to you?
- He required a lady -- a _lady_ (Mrs. Major smiled deprecatingly) who should devote herself to his cats.
- BERCH'TA ( "_the white lady_"), a fairy of southern Germany, answering to Hulda ( "the gracious lady") of northern Germany.
- Avis, in the position of _lady abbess_ of a convent in one of your eastern cities, which it is settled she will have, will stand quite as high, I guess, as in the position of lady Elwood.
- The lady, too, is a votary of the muses; and as I think myself somewhat of a judge in my own trade, I assure you that her verses, always correct, and often elegant, are much beyond the common run of the _lady poetesses_ of the day.
- The fair lady of the gentleman in charge of the fort was the _only lady_ at the place, and indeed the only one within a circuit of six hundred miles -- which space, being the primeval forest, was inhabited only by wild beasts and a few Indians.
- When Mary said to him she would miss her pupil, he smiled in a sort of abstracted way, as if not quite apprehending what she said, which seemed to Mary a little odd, his manners in essentials being those of a gentleman, as judged by one a little more than a lady; for there is an unnamed degree higher than the ordinary _lady_.
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