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 enchanted the people.
- The lady bought the comeliness.
- The man is engaged to the lady.
- The lady is unmarried and a single.
- The lady was coquettish to the men.
- The lady was revealed to be the detractor.
- He could not carouse in front of the beautiful lady.
- I unconsciously leered at a beautiful lady with shortskirts.