Definition of lady's in English English dictionary
- lady's comb
- Venus' comb
- lady's man
- A man who attracts women and enjoys their company
This promenading was chiefly patronised by the marines, and particularly by Colbrook, a remarkably handsome and very gentlemanly corporal among them. He was a complete lady's man; with fine black eyes, bright red cheeks, glossy jet whiskers, and a refined organisation of the whole man.
- lady's man
- A womanizer
He was the most celebrated portrait painter of his day, a notorious ladies man, obsessed with women, pale beauties dressed in extravagant gowns . . . or nothing at all.
- lady's mantle
- The herb Alchemilla vulgaris, or any plant in the genus Alchemilla
- lady's men
- plural form of lady's man
- lady's slipper
- A variety of orchid in the subfamily Cypripedioideae distinguished by their slipper-shaped pouches which trap insects to improve pollination rates
- lady's thumb
- The invasive perennial plant Persicaria maculosa
- lady's mantle
- An herbaceous perennial plant in Europe and Greenland, alchemilla vulgaris
- lady's finger
- Mammillaria elongata - a species of cactus in the genus Mammillaria
- lady's finger
- Polygonum persicaria - more commonly called "lady's thumb"
- lady's finger
- A variety of banana also known as "sugar banana"
- lady's finger
- Okra
- lady's finger
- Ladyfinger grape
- lady's bedstraw
- small plant once used as stuffing for mattresses; shrub with long and thin leaves and clusters of white flowers native of East India
- lady's finger
- type of long and slender potato; small sponge cake with sugar topping; one of the lobster's gill; kidney vetch, Eurasian plant with pods that are shaped like a finger (in the past was used to treat kidney disorders)
- lady's maid
- a maid who is a lady's personal attendant
- lady's man
- another spelling of ladies' man
- lady's mantle
- {i} (Botany) type of herbs that belong to the of the rose family
- lady's slipper
- any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden
- lady's slipper
- Any of various orchids of the genus Cypripedium, having usually solitary, variously colored flowers with an inflated, pouchlike lip. Also called moccasin flower. Any member of several genera of orchids in which the lip of the flower is slipper-shaped. The genus Cypripedium has about 50 temperate and subtropical species. Two well-known species, the yellow lady's slipper (C. calceolus) and the pink lady's slipper, or moccasin flower (C. acaule), are found in temperate coniferous woods in early spring. Other genera include Phragmipedium and Selenipedium of the New World tropics, and the tropical Asian Paphiopedilum. Many hybrids have been developed
- lady's smock
- a bitter cress of Europe and America
- lady's thumb
- A European perennial weed (Polygonum persicaria) having clusters of very small pinkish flowers
- lady's tresses
- Variant of ladies' tresses
- lady's-eardrop
- erect or climbing shrub of Brazil with deep pink to red flowers
- Lady
- The title for the (primary) female deity in female-centered religions, for example, the title for the Goddess in Wicca
My Lady, will you not take pity on me?.
- Lady
- Lady Amherst's pheasant
- 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
How do you do, Lady Windermere?.
- Lady Amherst's pheasant
- a colourful pheasant, Chrysolophus amherstiae, indigenous to China but also found in Bedfordshire
- Lady Bountiful
- A rich and generous woman
- Lady Bountiful
- An over-patronising woman, showing off her wealth by acts of overwhelming generosity
- Lady Campbell
- The plant Echium plantagineum
1983: A certain Lady Campbell, during the construction of the Great Southern Railway through Western Australian in 1889 also helped by introducing it as a garden flower at her home not far from Broomehill. It then follwed the construction of the line. — Weekend Australian newspaper, 25 June 1983, page 10. Quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms'', second edition, 1985, Sydney University Press, ISBN 0-424-00113-6.
- Lady Day
- 25th March, Christian holy day, the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
- Lady Day
- 25th March, an English quarter day
- Lady Justice
- In a mythological personification, justice symbolized as a blindfolded young lady
- Lady Justice
- A female judge, as in "Her Lady Justice"
- Lady Luck
- A personification of luck
- Lady McLeod
- Nickname for a local stamp inscribed "L. MCl." to represent the ship Lady McLeod, produced by David Bryce, the owner of the ship, in Trinidad in 1847. It was the first stamp produced in a British colony, but is considered by many to be a Cinderella
- Lady Muck
- An appellation given to a woman who behaves in a perceived aristocratic manner
- lady
- A polite term referring to a woman
Please direct this lady to the soft furnishings department.
- lady
- An affectionate term for one's wife or girlfriend
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks...? It is my lady, O it is my love! -Romeo and Juliet.
- lady
- A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority
I would like the dining room to be fully set by tonight; would you do so? Yes, my lady.
- lady
- The mistress of a household
- lady
- The feminine of lord
- lady
- Who is a woman
A lady doctor.
- lady
- A title for somebody married to a gentleman
- lady
- A title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess or baroness
- lady
- (ladies; in plural only) A polite form of address to women
Follow me, ladies!.
- lady
- A title for someone married to a lord
- lady
- (ladies' or ladies) Toilets intended for use by women
- lady
- a queen (the playing card)
- lady
- A highly colloquial and/or impolite form of address to a woman
Hey, lady, move your car!.
- lady abbess
- A bawd, the mistress of a brothel
And whenever any She-member could convert a Proselite, and bring her over from a vertuous Life to be willing to embrace that earthly Tabernacle, Man, for such excellent Service done to the Church of Venus, she was to receive ten Shillings of the Mother of the Maids, provided the Conformist was under twenty Years of Age, had a tollerable Share of Beauty, and either was, or could confidently put herself into the Hands of the old Matron, as a Virgo intacta, and would submit herself to be dispos'd on by her as should me most agreeable to their united Interest; the Lady-Abbess of the Brothel Monastry never wanting among the Salacious Quality of her old Acquaintance; a Gouty Courtier, or some rich over-grown Officer, to be ready-money Chapmen for any of her Punchable Nuns, who had not, as yet, broken the brittle Vow of Female Chastity.
- lady abbesses
- plural form of lady abbess
- lady beetle
- Another term for a ladybug (US terminology) or ladybird (British terminology). This term is preferred by some scientists
- lady beetles
- plural form of lady beetle
- lady boys
- plural form of lady boy
- lady friend
- A more quaint term for girlfriend, often used ironically
- lady friends
- plural form of lady friend
- lady garden
- A woman's pubic hair, and the area around it
That way, when I dropped my towel, my lady garden would only be exposed for a nanosecond before it disappeared under the steamy waters of the pool.
- lady gardens
- plural form of lady garden
- lady killers
- plural form of lady killer
- lady of leisure
- A lady who is of independent means and so does not need employment, one who is free from duties and responsibilities
- lady of the night
- prostitute
that's what they call her the lady of the night - Donna Summer - Lady Of The Night.
- lady or tiger
- A pure gamble with highly divergent outcomes
- lady smock
- The cuckoo-flower, Cardamine pratensis
- lady smocks
- plural form of lady smock
- lady-in-waiting
- A woman who is a servant to a lady. Similar to a valet for a gentleman
- lady-killer
- An uncaring womanizer
- lady-killer
- A man unusually attractive to women
- Lady
- An aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right
- lady
- A woman of social distinction or position
- lady
- A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; a feminine correlative of lord
- lady
- A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart
- lady
- The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure
- lady
- In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl
- lady
- The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right
- lady
- {n} a title of honor or respect, a woman
- lady finger
- Ladyfinger grape
- lady finger
- Mammillaria elongata - a species of cactus in the genus Mammillaria
- lady finger
- A variety of banana also known as "sugar banana"
- lady finger
- Okra
- lady finger
- Polygonum persicaria - more commonly called "lady's thumb"
- lady in waiting
- Lady who attends a queen or princess
- lady in waiting
- Pregnant woman (Humorous)
- lady luck
- Lady Luck is a personification of luck that is often involved in gambler's superstitions
- Lady Bracknell
- a character in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest
- Lady Chapel
- A chapel, as in a cathedral or church, usually located behind the sanctuary and dedicated to the Virgin Mary
- Lady Chatterley
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- a novel by D. H. Lawrence which was written in 1928, but could not legally be sold in the UK until 1960 because the story contained a lot of descriptions of sex and was considered to be very shocking. It is about Lady Chatterley, a married woman from a high social class, who has a sexual relationship with her gamekeeper (=someone whose job is to take care of wild birds that are bred to be shot for sport)
- Lady Day
- Annunciation, celebrated on March
- Lady Day
- March 25th, feast commemorating the Annunciation
- Lady Day
- 25 March, the day of the Annunciation, on which, according to Christian belief, the news was given to Mary by the Angel Gabriel that she would become the mother of Jesus Christ. Formerly, Lady Day was officially regarded as the first day of the legal year in the UK
- Lady Godiva
- {i} (c. 1040-1080) English noblewoman who (according to legend) rode naked through the streets of Coventry (England) to spare its citizens from a tax to be imposed by her husband
- Lady Godiva
- an 11th-century British woman of high rank who, according to old stories, rode a horse through Coventry with no clothes on as a protest, to persuade her husband to lower the local taxes. flourished 1040-1080 Anglo-Saxon gentlewoman famous for her legendary ride nude through Coventry, Eng. She was the wife of Leofric, earl of Mercia (d. 1057), with whom she founded a monastery at Coventry. There is no evidence connecting the rider with the historical Godiva. According to the legend, Leofric, exasperated over Godiva's ceaseless imploring that he reduce Coventry's heavy taxes, declared he would do so if she rode naked through the crowded marketplace. She did so, her long hair covering all of her body except her legs; as a result Leofric removed all tolls except those on horses. A later chronicle asserts that Godiva required the townsmen to remain indoors at the time fixed for her ride. Peeping Tom, a citizen who looked out his window, became part of the legend in the 17th century, and in most accounts he was struck blind or dead
- Lady Jane Grey
- a woman who was queen of England for 9 days in 1553, before she was put in prison by Mary I, and later killed (1537-54). born October 1537, Bradgate, Leicestershire, Eng. died Feb. 12, 1554, London Titular queen of England for nine days in 1553. The great-granddaughter of Henry VII, she was married in May 1553 to the son of the duke of Northumberland. Northumberland persuaded the dying Edward VI to set aside his half sisters as successors in favour of the Protestant Lady Jane. She was proclaimed queen on July 10, despite popular support for Edward's half sister Mary Tudor (see Mary I). Mary was proclaimed queen on July 19 after Lady Jane gladly relinquished the crown. Committed to the Tower of London, Lady Jane and her husband were sentenced to death in 1554. The sentence was initially suspended, but her father's participation in Wyat's rebellion sealed her fate, and she was beheaded
- Lady Macbeth
- Macbeth, Lady. a character in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. She encourages her husband, Macbeth, to kill Duncan, the king of Scotland, so that he can become king instead, and she is a stronger, more evil person than Macbeth himself. After the murder, however, she feels very guilty, and starts to walk in her sleep, trying to clean the imaginary blood of the dead king off her hands
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- orig. Lady Mary Pierrepont (baptized May 26, 1689, London, Eng. died Aug. 21, 1762, London) English writer, the most colourful Englishwoman of her time. A prolific letter writer, Montagu is remembered chiefly for 52 superb letters chronicling her stay in Constantinople, where her husband was ambassador from 1716 to 1718. On their return, they introduced the Middle Eastern practice of smallpox vaccination into England. Also a poet, essayist, feminist, and eccentric, she was a friend of John Gay and Alexander Pope, who later turned against and satirized her. Among her writings are six "town eclogues," witty adaptations of Virgil; a lively attack on Jonathan Swift (1734); and essays dealing with feminism and the moral cynicism of her time
- Lady and the Tramp
- a cartoon made by Walt Disney, about two dogs who meet and have a romantic relationship. Lady is a pedigree dog (=a special type of dog) , and she is very well cared for, but the Tramp is a mongrel (=a mixture of different types of dogs) who lives on the street (1955)
- Lady of the Lake
- a mysterious woman in old stories about King Arthur. When Arthur is dying, his sword, Excalibur, is thrown into a lake, and the Lady of the Lake's hand appears from under the water and catches it. She is also one of the three queens who take Arthur by boat to Avalon to die
- Lady of the Lamp
- Nightingale, Florence
- lady
- It consists of calcareous plates
- lady
- A wife; not now in approved usage
- lady
- a polite name for any woman; "a nice lady at the library helped me"
- lady
- n wanita
- lady
- If you say that a woman is a lady, you mean that she behaves in a polite, dignified, and graceful way. His wife was great as well, beautiful-looking and a real lady
- lady
- People sometimes refer to a public toilet for women as the ladies. At Temple station, Charlotte rushed into the Ladies
- lady
- a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady"
- lady
- a woman of the peerage in Britain a polite name for any woman; "a nice lady at the library helped me
- lady
- A woman of wealth, of station, or of rank Verstegan says, It was anciently written Hleafdian [? hlæfdige], contracted first into Lafdy, and then into Lady Laf or Hláf (loaf) means food in general or bread in particular, and dig-ian or dug-an, to help, serve, or care for; whence lady means the `bread-server ' The lord (or loaf-ward) supplied the food, and the lady saw that it was properly served, for the ladies used to carve and distribute the food to the guests Another etymology is Hláf-weardie and loaf-wardie, where ie stands for a female suffix like-ina ine; as Carolus, female Carol-ina, or Carol-ine; Joseph, Joseph-ina or Joseph-ine; Czar, Czar-ina, etc etc Ladies retire to the drawing-room after dinner, and leave the gentlemen behind This custom was brought in by the Norsemen The Vikings always dismissed all women from their drinking parties (S Bunbury )
- lady
- Noun (Plural: Ladies) Prefix used for female members of the nobility in the United Kingdom
- lady
- a woman of the peerage in Britain
- lady
- You can use lady when you are referring to a woman, especially when you are showing politeness or respect. She's a very sweet old lady a lady doctor. a cream-coloured lady's shoe. see also old lady
- lady
- {s} female, being a woman; of a lady, feminine
- lady
- A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household
- lady
- Toilets intended for use by women
- lady
- A polite form of address to women
- lady
- 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
- lady
- politeness `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. What seems to be the trouble, lady? see also First Lady, Our Lady. a rather old-fashioned British magazine for women, typically read by older, upper class women. It also contains advertisements for servants and nannies. Lady Diana Frances Spencer first lady Godey's Lady's Book Godiva Lady Gregory Augusta Lady Grey Lady Jane Hamilton Emma Lady lady's slipper Montagu Lady Mary Wortley Lady Mary Pierrepont painted lady Lady Augusta Ada Byron
- lady
- A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; the feminine correlative of gentleman
- lady
- An affectionate term for ones wife or girlfriend
- lady
- A woman of wealth, of station, or of rank Verstegan says, It was anciently written Hleafdian [? hlæfdige], contracted first into Lafdy, and then into Lady Laf or Hláf (loaf) means food in general or bread in particular, and dig-ian or dug-an, to help, serve, or care for; whence lady means the `bread-server ' The lord (or loaf-ward supplied the food, and the lady saw that it was properly served, for the ladies used to carve and distribute the food to the guests Another etymology is Hláf-weardie and loaf-wardie, where ie stands for a female suffix like-ina ine; as Carolus, female Carol-ina, or Carol-ine; Joseph, Joseph-ina or Joseph-ine; Czar, Czar-ina, etc etc Ladies retire to the drawing-room after dinner, and leave the gentlemen behind This custom was brought in by the Norsemen The Vikings always dismissed all women from their drinking parties (S Bunbury
- lady
- Title of honor for the Goddess
- lady
- HÃril
- lady
- A lady 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
- lady
- politeness 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
- lady
- madanm
- lady
- {i} well educated and refined woman, woman of high social position; daughter or wife of a nobleman, noblewoman; woman, female
- lady
- Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike
- lady
- A lady (lowercase) is any female person A Lady (capital) is a lady who has received her Award of Arms, and it is also her title
- lady beetle
- small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
- lady beetle
- ladybug, small rounded brightly colored beetle, ladybird
- lady chapel
- a small chapel in a church; dedicated to the Virgin Mary
- lady cow
- ladybird, any of a number of small and brightly colored beetles, ladybug
- lady day
- The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25
- lady fern
- most widely grown fern of the genus Athyrium for its delicate foliage
- lady fern
- fern with delicate soft fronds
- lady friend
- A man's lady friend is the woman with whom he is having a romantic or sexual relationship
- lady in distress
- woman in need of help, woman in a difficult situation
- lady in waiting
- A lady of a court appointed to serve or attend a queen, princess, or royal duchess
- lady in waiting
- {i} lady who attends a queen or princess; pregnant woman (Humorous)
- lady killer
- Don Juan, womanizer, man who courts a large number of women (often treating them disrespectfully)
- lady love
- sweetheart (of a woman); mistress
- lady of a certain age
- middle aged woman
- lady of easy virtue
- a slut, a prostitute
- lady of pleasure
- {i} prostitute, whore, harlot, woman who provides sexual services for a fee
- lady of privilege
- woman who has money or a high social standing
- lady of the night
- West Indian shrub with aromatic yellowish-white flowers (Botany); female prostitute (Slang)
- lady of uncertain age
- a woman whose age hard to determine
- lady palm
- any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants
- lady tulip
- A central Asian tulip (Tulipa clusiana) having red outer perianth segments with white margins
- lady tulip
- Eurasian tulip with small flowers blotched at the base
- lady-fly
- {i} small red sheath-winged insect
- lady-in-waiting
- A lady-in-waiting is a woman whose job is to help a queen or princess. ladies-in-waiting a woman who looks after and serves a queen or princess
- lady-in-waiting
- a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess
- lady-killer
- If you refer to a man as a lady-killer, you mean that you think he is very successful at attracting women but quickly leaves them
- lady-of-the-night
- West Indian shrub with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers
- large yellow lady's slipper
- plant of eastern and central North America having slightly fragrant purple-marked greenish-yellow flowers
- First Lady
- The wife (or woman of similar rank) of a male chief executive of a nation; especially the wife of the President of the United States
- Our Lady
- The Virgin Mary
- Our Lady of Sorrows
- Name by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relations to sorrows in her life
- bag lady
- A homeless woman who carries her possessions with her in bags
- cat lady
- An elderly woman who devotes her time and attention to a domestic cat or cats
- dinner lady
- A woman employed to serve food in a school canteen
- first lady
- The leading woman in a specified field of endeavor
- it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
- There are more developments yet to come
- little lady
- The wife or fiancée
Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.
- lollipop lady
- A female school crossing attendant
- lunch lady
- A dinner lady
- naked lady
- A shrub found in semi-arid tropical climates
- no way to treat a lady
- Rude, insensitive, or harmful behavior, especially when directed toward a female
A bus driver for the Dave Matthews Band dumped a septic tank off the Kinzie Street Bridge in 2004 and transformed the Chicago Little Lady into a poop deck. 'Twas no way to treat a lady.
- old lady
- One's girlfriend, wife or significant other
- old lady
- An elderly woman
- old lady
- The Bank of England, sometimes referred to as the "Old Lady of Threadneedle Street" or simply "The Old Lady". (see: Bank of England on Wikipedia)
- old lady
- One's mother
- one fat lady
- eight
- painted lady
- A widespread butterfly, Vanessa cardui
- the lady doth protest too much
- It is suspected that, because someone is insisting too much about something, the opposite of what he or she is saying must be true
In all Penelope's devotion to her husband there is an ever present sense that the lady doth protest too much.
- white lady
- cocaine
- young lady
- A young ladylike woman
- young lady
- A girl
- It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
- (Atasözü) It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings is a proverb, essentially meaning that one shouldn't assume the outcome of some activity (frequently a sports game) until it has actually finished. This phrase in turn refers to the impression by many that at the end of every opera, an aria is sung by a heavy-set woman dressed like a valkyrie. A famous example of this is Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (aka the Ring cycle). This is a set of 4 separate operas (lasting about 15 hours), in which the final scene includes Brünnhilde (a very large Valkyrie) singing, and then riding onto Siegfried's funeral pyre. The set collapses and the entire cycle ends up in the Rhine river, where it started. The "fat lady" is often illustrated with a horned helmet, a spear, possibly a shield, and possibly blond braids (to suggest Scandinavian ancestry)
- dragon lady
- A Dragon Lady is a misogynistic stereotype of East Asian women as mean, deceitful, domineering, or mysterious
- dragon lady
- a Dragon Lady (etymology), a usually pejorative term for either a seductive and treacherous woman (especially a dangerous Asian woman), or a domineering or tyrannical one
- Augusta Lady Gregory
- orig. Isabella Augusta Persse born March 5, 1852, Roxborough, County Galway, Ire. died May 22, 1932, Coole Irish playwright and theatre manager, an important figure in the Irish Literary Renaissance. With William Butler Yeats, she helped found the Irish Literary Theatre (1898) and the Abbey Theatre (1904). She wrote many dialect comedies based on Irish peasant life, including those collected in Seven Short Plays (1909). She also translated plays by Molière and others into an Anglo-Irish dialect that she called "Kiltartan" and translated and arranged Irish sagas into continuous narratives, published as Cuchulain of Muirthemne (1902) and Gods and Fighting Men (1904)
- Emma Lady Hamilton
- orig. Amy Lyon born 1761, Great Neston, Cheshire, Eng. died Jan. 15, 1815, Calais, France English social figure, mistress of Horatio Nelson. In 1786 she became the mistress, and in 1791 the wife, of Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), British envoy to Naples. A beautiful woman whose portrait was frequently painted by George Romney, she was a favourite in Neapolitan society. She became Nelson's mistress in 1798 and gave birth to their daughter, Horatia, in 1801, then lived with Nelson after her husband's death (1803). She later squandered the money both men left her, was imprisoned for debt (1813-14), and died in poverty
- Godey's Lady's Book
- Monthly magazine for women, one of the most successful and influential periodicals in 19th-century America. Founded in 1830 in Philadelphia by Louis Antoine Godey, it became an important arbiter of fashion and etiquette. It also published works by such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry W. Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Edited by Godey until 1836, the magazine was then edited by Sara Josepha Hale until 1877. It ceased publication in 1898
- Iron Lady
- a name that was formerly used, especially in newspapers, for Margaret Thatcher when she was the British Prime Minister. She was called this because people thought of her as a strong leader who did not change her mind easily
- My Fair Lady
- a US musical (=a film that uses singing and dancing to tell a story) in which Audrey Hepburn plays a poor young woman from London who is taught to speak and behave like an upper-class lady by a bad-tempered professor, played by Rex Harrison. It is based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1964)
- My Fair Lady
- American musical based on the play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw
- Old Lady of Threadneedle Street
- a nickname for the Bank of England, which is in Threadneedle Street, London
- Our Lady
- Some Christians, especially Catholics, refer to Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, as Our Lady. Will you pray to Our Lady for me?. The Virgin Mary. Mary, the mother of Christ
- alpine lady fern
- a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains
- american lady crab
- brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States
- bag lady
- a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in shopping bags
- bag lady
- A bag lady is a homeless woman who carries her possessions in shopping bags. A homeless woman, especially one in a big city, who carries her possessions with her, as in a shopping bag. an impolite word for a homeless woman who lives on the streets and carries all her possessions with her
- bag lady
- homeless woman, woman who lives on the streets and keeps her possessions in shopping bags, female beggar
- california lady's slipper
- often having many yellow-green orchids with white pouches growing along streams and seeps of southwestern Oregon and northern California
- cleaning lady
- A cleaning lady is a woman who is employed to clean the rooms and furniture inside a building. = cleaner
- cleaning lady
- a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet"
- clustered lady's slipper
- clusters of several short stems each having 2 broad leaves and 2-4 drooping brownish to greenish flowers with pouches mottled with purple; British Columbia to central California and northern Colorado
- common lady's-slipper
- pale pink wild orchid of northeastern America having an inflated pouchlike lip
- dinner lady
- a woman who serves meals to children at school
- elegant lady
- fashionable woman
- english lady crab
- crab of the English coasts
- fancy lady
- adulterous woman; man's lover; prostitute
- first lady
- the wife of a chief executive the leading woman in an art or profession
- first lady
- the leading woman in an art or profession
- first lady
- the wife of a chief executive
- first lady
- wife of the foremost leader in a country or city; well-known woman in her field
- first lady
- The First Lady in a country or state is the wife of the president or state governor, or a woman who performs the official duties normally performed by the wife. Wife of the president of the U.S. Although the first lady's role has never been codified or officially defined, she figures prominently in the country's political and social life. Representative of her husband on official and ceremonial occasions both at home and abroad, the first lady is closely watched for some hint of her husband's thinking and for a clue to his future actions. The wife of the president played a public role from the founding of the U.S., but the title first lady did not come into general use until much later, near the end of the 19th century. By the end of the 20th century, the title had been absorbed into other languages and was often used, without translation, for the wife of a country's leader even in countries where the leader's consort received far less attention and exerted much less influence than did her counterpart in the U.S. Although unpaid and unelected, she is able to influence behaviour and opinion, and some first ladies have used their influence to affect legislation on important matters such as temperance reform, housing improvement, and women's rights
- leading lady
- {i} leading actress, actress who plays the principal role in a movie or play
- leading lady
- actress who plays the leading female role
- lollipop lady
- a woman hired to help children cross a road safely near a school
- lollipop lady
- someone whose job is to help children cross a road safely on their way to school
- m'lady
- used by a servant to address a woman who belongs to a noble family
- mountain lady's slipper
- leafy plant having a few stems in a clump with 1 white and dull purple flower in each upper leaf axil; Alaska to northern California and Wyoming
- old lady
- your own wife; "meet my old lady
- old lady
- Some men refer to their wife, girlfriend, or mother as their old lady. He had met his old lady when he was a house painter and she was a waitress. sb's old lady someone's wife, mother, or girlfriend
- old lady
- elderly woman; wife (offensive term); mother, mom (offensive term)
- old lady
- your own wife; "meet my old lady"