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lady

noun as in woman of rank

noun as in woman

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Some of her early songs were so pointedly feminist that radio stations wouldn’t play them, yet she also wrote one of history’s only known songs about PMS, a look-out-fellas-ladies-be-crazy deep cut that, unlike most of her work, has not aged well.

The lady who lived across the hall had gone to see her daughter in Georgia, and now she was stuck there while all her things were here.

A week or two later, I told the dog's owner how scared my kids are to go by their house — not because of the dog, but because of the "mean scary lady."

The only woman indicted in the 20-year history of the International Criminal Court is Simone Gbagbo, the former first lady of Cote d’Ivoire.

Honorifics should be used on envelopes, and widowhood does not change the lady’s form of address.

I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?

Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.

The Real-Life ‘Downton’ Millionairesses Who Changed BritainBy Tim Teeman Lady Grantham of ‘Downton Abbey’ is far from an anomaly.

Lady Rose is also rather subdued in the premiere, which is a pity.

“Officers had to go stop an elderly lady from being assaulted,” Sgt. Houston said.

The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.

Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!

The young lady, hearing his step, turned round and stood on the stair, confronting him fiercely.

See the ease and grace of the lady in the sacque, who sits on the bank there, under the myrtles, with the guitar on her lap!

At another time her affections were deeply engaged by a young gentleman who visited a lady on a neighboring plantation.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lady, such as: gentlewoman, nobility, noblewoman, baroness, contessa, and countess.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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