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How to pronounce lady in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dame, gentlewoman, ma'am, madam
Type of woman, adult female
Has types madame, grande dame


a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady.
Type Words
Synonyms noblewoman, peeress
Type of female aristocrat
Has types marquise, baroness, marchioness, duchess, lady-in-waiting, countess, milady
Type Words
Type of woman, adult female
Has types begum


a nice lady at the library helped me.

Examples of lady

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Under that blindfold, the lady holding the scales is either weeping or sleeping.
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I wish I knew this lady so I could tell her how she is being taken advantage of.
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Lady Banks is a great rose, but looks best when given space to grow and develop.
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Stuart was a leading lady in 1930s films, then gave up acting and turned to art.
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The remark stuns the young lady, which only prompts Yiayia to repeat the remark.
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Then I tiptoe around gilded icons in the Orthodox church behind a bent old lady.
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To begin with, the average lady Sumo looks a lot like the average American lady.
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I insisted I was certain the lady only fainted and that no ambulance was needed.
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I had time enough to buy cookies from the lady who sells them outside the store.
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More examples
  • A polite name for any woman; "a nice lady at the library helped me"
  • Dame: a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady"
  • A woman of the peerage in Britain
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