英语词汇“lady”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	lady
释义	la·dy I. \ˈlādē, -di\ noun (-es) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English lady, lavedi, lafdi, from Old English hlǣfdīge, from hlāf bread + -dīge (from root of a prehistoric verb meaning to knead); akin to Old English dǣge maid, kneader of bread — more at loaf, dairy 1. obsolete : a mistress of servants : a woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family : female head of a household 2. a. : a woman having proprietary rights, rule, or authority : a woman to whom obedience or homage is owed as a ruler or feudal superior — usually used chiefly in the phrase lady of the manor; compare lord 1 b. (1) : a woman receiving the particular homage of a knight (2) : a woman who is the object of a lover's devotion : ladylove, mistress, sweetheart 3. a. : a woman of good family or of a superior social position < inclined to remind you that she was a lady by birth — W.S.Maugham > < begins as a narrative with a warm and vigorous picture of the decline of the lady … into the woman — H.S.Canby > < the airs of a lady > < once a lady could not be a stenographer or a shopgirl — Katharine F. Gerould > — compare gentleman 1b; used also of a woman in a courteous mode of reference < show this lady to a seat > < the ladies' singles championship > or usually in the plural of address < that will be all, ladies > < ladies and gentlemen > b. : a woman of refinement and gentle manners : a woman whose conduct conforms to a certain standard of propriety or correct behavior : well-bred woman < with a lady's respect for tranquillity she forbore to discuss these troubles — Frances G. Patton > < no woman with a bosom could be quite a lady in his eyes — Hugh MacLennan > < a lady … quiet, reserved, gracious, continent … gentle, and a woman — W.D.Steele > — compare gentleman 1c c. : a woman irrespective of social status or personal qualities : female < a lady doctor > < a charlady > < a two-headed boy and a bearded lady > < lady novelists > < the iceman, the blackberry lady, and the poor blind man with the brooms — Eudora Welty > < noticed the cold eye of the lady behind the bar — Margery Allingham > < as fit as a lady sharpshooter — Ethel Merman > 4. : wife < the president and his lady > < his daughter was now a general's lady — John De Meyer > < fashionable doctors and their ladies — Gene Baro > 5. — used as a title prefixed to the names of various supernatural beings and personified abstractions < Lady Venus > < Lady Luck > — compare dame 1c 6. a. : any of various titled women in Great Britain — used as a courtesy title for the daughter of a duke, marquess, or earl < Lady Philippa Stewart, daughter of the fourteenth Duke of Norfolk > and for the wife of a younger son of a duke or marquess < Lady Randolph Churchill, wife of a younger son of the Duke of Marlborough > and as a mode of reference for a marchioness, countess, viscountess, or baroness < the Marchioness of Lothian, addressed as Lady Lothian > and for the wife of a baronet or knight < Sir William and Lady Craigie > b. : a female member of certain orders of knighthood or chivalry < Her Majesty is Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter — Burke's Peerage > < appointed by Pope Pius as a lady of the grand cross of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre — Springfield (Massachusetts) Union > — compare dame 1g 7. a. obsolete : the queen in a set of chess men b. slang : a queen in a deck of playing cards 8. [so called from the fancied resemblance to the outline of a seated woman's figure] : the triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster 9. : a gunner's mate in charge of the lady's hole on a man-of-war 10. a. : a female animal < one was a lady, her swimmerets … covered with black eggs — Robert Hunter > < a lady goat > < the male trout are handsome, the lady trout pretty and available — Ford Times > b. : a female harlequin duck — compare lord-and-lady 11. ladies plural but singular in construction, chiefly Britain : ladies' room < slipped into the ladies to powder her nose > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-es) *transitive verb* obsolete : to make a lady of or to make ladylike *intransitive verb* : to play the lady — used with it < ladying it over her former friends >
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