ladies
Meaning
- plural of lady
- (obsolete) genitive of lady
- (slang) An initial hand consisting of a pair of queens.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈleɪdiz/
Etymology
As a lavatory for women, via misspelling of ladies'. Compare gents.
New
lady
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- The mistress of a household.
- A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
- The feminine of lord.
- A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.
- A title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess, or baroness.
- A woman: an adult female human.
- A polite reference or form of address to women.
- (slang) Used to address a female.
- (informal) 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).
- Who is a woman.
- Alternative form of Lady.
- gastric mill, the triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.
- (slang) A five-pound note. (Rhyming slang, Lady Godiva for fiver.)
- (slang) A woman’s breast.
- (slang) A queen.
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