lady

Definitions

• (historical) The mistress of a household.
• A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
• (polite) A woman: an adult female human.
• (in the plural)
• (slang)
• (ladies' or ladies) Toilets intended for use by women.
• (familiar) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
• A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
• (slang) A queen the playing card.
• (attributive) Who is a woman.
• (Wicca) (alternative form of) Lady.
• The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.
• (UK) A five-pound note. (Rhyming slang, Lady Godiva for fiver (fiver).)
• (slang) A woman’s breast.