Définition "lady" dans le Dictionnaire anglais pour apprenants Collins Cobuild English Dictionary & Thesaurus

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lady (ladies plural )

1 n-count 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...

2 n-voc You can say `ladies' when you are addressing a group of women in a formal and respectful way., (politeness) Your table is ready, ladies, if you'd care to come through...

3 n-count 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.

4 n-title 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.

5 n-count 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...

6 n-sing People sometimes refer to a public toilet for women as the ladies.
(BRIT)
INFORMAL At Temple station, Charlotte rushed into the Ladies.

7 n-voc `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, politeness What seems to be the trouble, lady?...

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→ First Lady
→ Our Lady

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