Meaning

• Noun

  1. The mistress of a household.
  2. A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
  3. The feminine of lord.
  4. A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.
  5. A title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess, or baroness.
  6. A woman: an adult female human.
  7. A polite reference or form of address to women.
  8. (slang) Used to address a female.
  9. (informal) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
  10. A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
  11. (slang) A queen (the playing card).
  12. Who is a woman.
  13. Alternative form of Lady.
  14. 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.
  15. (slang) A five-pound note. (Rhyming slang, Lady Godiva for fiver.)
  16. (slang) A woman’s breast.
  17. (slang) A queen.

• Verb