LADY
\lˈe͡ɪdi], \lˈeɪdi], \l_ˈeɪ_d_i]\
Definitions of LADY
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
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A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
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A woman of social distinction or position. 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. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right.
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Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.
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The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation.
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A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; - a feminine correlative of lord.
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A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; - the feminine correlative of gentleman.
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A wife; - not now in approved usage.
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The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; - so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.
By Oddity Software
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A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
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A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
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A woman of social distinction or position. 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. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right.
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Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.
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The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation.
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A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; - a feminine correlative of lord.
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A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; - the feminine correlative of gentleman.
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A wife; - not now in approved usage.
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The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; - so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.
By Noah Webster.
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A wellbred woman; a woman of good family or of high position in society; a sweetheart; Lady, the title of the wife of a knight, baronet, earl, etc; the daughter of a duke, marquis, or earl; the Virgin Mary; with Our.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The mistress of a house: a wife: a title of the wives of knights, and all degrees above them, and of the daughters of earls and all higher ranks: a title of complaisance to any woman of refined manners.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A gentle or noble woman a woman of social distinction or position — the feminine corresponding to lord;— a woman of gentle or refined manners;— wife; a spouse the mistress of a household;— the owner of a manor or estate; a chatelaine.
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