Definitions for ladies

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ladies la·dy

Spelling: [ley-dee]

IPA: /ˈleɪ di/

Ladies is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in ladies (adeils).

Definitions for ladies

noun

1. a woman who is refined, polite, and well-spoken:
2. a woman of high social position or economic class:
3. any woman; female (sometimes used in combination):
4. (used in direct address: usually offensive in the singular):
5. wife:
6. Slang. a female lover or steady companion.
7. (initial capital letter) (in Great Britain) the proper title of any woman whose husband is higher in rank than baronet or knight, or who is the daughter of a nobleman not lower than an earl (although the title is given by courtesy also to the wives of baronets and knights).
8. a woman who has proprietary rights or authority, as over a manor; female feudal superior. Compare lord (def 4).
9. (initial capital letter) the Virgin Mary.
10. a woman who is the object of chivalrous devotion.
11. (usually initial capital letter) an attribute or abstraction personified as a woman; a designation of an allegorical figure as feminine: a title prefixed to the name of a goddess:

adjective

1. Sometimes Offensive. being a female:
2. of a lady; ladylike; feminine.

Origin of ladies

before 900; Middle English ladi(e), earlier lavedi, Old English hlǣfdīge, hlǣfdige, perhaps orig. meaning “loaf-kneader,” equivalent to hlāf loaf¹ + -dīge,

Examples for ladies

So just pretend that stuff never happens, would you, ladies?

As for my brother, he seemed enchanted with the sight, and especially with the ladies.

The second time we went, it was sort of their favorite of the ladies and their favorite of the guys.

As in the past, you can pull up beside some ladies of the night and call them into your car.

The gentlemen were smoking, and some of the ladies were trying to look at ease with cigarettes.

She and the child were soon landed, and given over to the ladies.

He knew all about cilantro and the best facial cleanses, but in bed and on the kitchen table he was all about the ladies.

ladies, ladies—this is degenerating into a mere hammer-fest.

ladies, awful pick-up lines are about to get a whole lot worse.

ladies should have with them as much jewelry as possible, borrowed or otherwise.