LADY


Meaning of LADY in English

(ladies)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

You can use ~ when you are referring to a woman, especially when you are showing politeness or respect.

She’s a very sweet old ~...

...a ~ doctor.

...a cream-coloured ~’s shoe.

N-COUNT

see also old ~

2.

You can say ‘ladies’ when you are addressing a group of women in a formal and respectful way.

Your table is ready, ladies, if you’d care to come through...

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

N-VOC politeness

3.

A ~ is a woman from the upper classes, especially in former times.

Our governess was told to make sure we knew how to talk like English ladies.

N-COUNT

4.

In Britain, Lady is a title used in front of the names of some female members of the nobility, or the wives of knights.

My dear Lady Mary, how very good to see you.

N-TITLE

5.

If you say that a woman is a ~, you mean that she behaves in a polite, dignified, and graceful way.

His wife was great as well, beautiful-looking and a real ~...

N-COUNT

6.

People sometimes refer to a public toilet for women as the ladies. (BRIT INFORMAL)

At Temple station, Charlotte rushed into the Ladies.

N-SING: usu the N

7.

‘Lady’ is sometimes used by men as a form of address when they are talking to a woman that they do not know, especially in shops and in the street. (AM INFORMAL)

What seems to be the trouble, ~?...

N-VOC politeness

8.

see also First Lady , Our Lady

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