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# lady

«lady» in Mova's school dictionary: **a polite word for a woman** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (lady, ladies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lady is a polite word for a woman. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#m1)

2) A lady is a woman with good manners, or (in the past) a woman of high rank: Lady Jane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#m2)

3) Ladies (or the ladies) is a toilet for women in a public place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, a person in the story; sometimes ladies are counted in a group to add to another group (ladies and men). In everyday life and manners: «Ladies and gentlemen» to start a speech, «the lady at the shop». In stories, a lady in a castle or a kind old lady. Phrases: «ladies and gentlemen», «old lady», «dinner lady», «lollipop lady», «the ladies».

### examples

- A lady bought 3 hats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#x1)
- There are 12 ladies and 8 men in the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#x2)
- The lady paid 20 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#x3)
- How many people in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#x4)
- Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our school play! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#x5)
- The lollipop lady helps us cross the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#x6)
- A kind old lady gave us directions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#x7)
- The dinner lady served us pasta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#x8)
- Did you see the young lady?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/#x9)

### note

Plural: ladies (y → ies). Possessive: the lady's hat, the ladies' room. A person; ladies may be one group to add to another. No clue on its own. A ladybird (ladybug) is an insect, not a lady.

### In the corpora

- [Hiding under a leaf as Mother Jaguar explains, they say: «I don't like this old lady one little bit.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/22/)
- [By chance the Stranger-man finds Teshumai at her Cave, having lunch with other Stone Age ladies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/3/)
- [The ladies fill the poor man's hair with mud, bang the tribal drums and call every chief of the Tribe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/7/)
- ["The ladies" is the everyday British name for the women's toilet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/8-toilets-and-getting-older/6/)
- ["Lady friend" means a man's girlfriend (old-fashioned).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/13-relations-and-family/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lady» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lady/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.