Ladyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪdi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.ɾi/
• 韻: -eɪdi
• ハイフネーション: la‧dy

名詞

lady (複数形 ladies)

1. (historical) The mistress of a household.
2. A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.

   "I would like the dining room to be fully set by tonight; would you do so?" "Yes, my lady".

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.

3. The feminine of lord.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 283, column 2:

     Of all theſe bounds euen from this Line, to this, / With ſhadowie Forreſts, and with Champains rich’d / With plenteous Riuers, and wide-ſkirted Meades / We make thee Lady.

   • 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfaul, 6th edition, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, published 1858:

     ’T was the proudest hall in the North Countree,
     And never its gates might opened be,
     Save to lord or lady of high decree […]

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. (polite or used by children) A woman: an adult female human.

   Please direct this lady to the soft furnishings department.

7. (in the plural) A polite reference or form of address to women.

   Ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure to be here today. Follow me, ladies!

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:

     The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

8. (slang) Used to address a female.

   Hey, lady, move your car!

   Hey, ladies, how are you doing?

9. (ladies' または ladies) Toilets intended for use by women.
10. (informal) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
    • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 59, column 2:

      It is my Lady, O it is my Loue, O that ſhe knew ſhe were,
      She ſpeakes, yet ſhe ſayes nothing, what of that?

    • 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I または II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, 1885, →OCLC:

      But nothing could now exceed my confusion upon seeing the gentleman and his lady enter

11. A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
    • 1666, Edmund Waller, “Instructions to a Painter”, in The Works of Edmund Walker‎^[2], Dublin: W. G. Jones, published 1768, page 154:

      The ſoldier here his waſted ſtore ſupplies,
      And takes new valor from the Ladies’ eyes.

12. (slang) A queen (the playing card).
13. (attributive, with a professional title) Who is a woman.

    A lady doctor.

    • 1964, James Holledge, Sex and the Australian Teenager, Melbounre: Horwitz Publications, page 15:

      The recent disclosures caused one headmistress of a city college to arrange for sex instructions to be given by a lady doctor to various forms.

14. (Wicca) Alternative form of Lady.
15. (archaic) 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.
16. (UK, slang) A five-pound note. (Rhyming スラング, Lady Godiva for fiver.)
17. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman’s breast.
18. (chess, slang, rare) A queen.

派生語

• Pages starting with “lady”.

関連する語

• fakaleitī
• Lady

派生した語

参照

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

動詞

lady (三人称単数 現在形 ladies, 現在分詞 ladying, 過去形および過去分詞形 ladied)

1. To address as “lady”.
   • 1897, Macmillan’s Magazine, page 13, column 1:

     “ […] When I am dead ye’ll mind I said it, my leddy.” “Ah, Elspeth, but do not lady me; say Christine, just wee Christine. […] ”

   • 1906, Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, page 374:

     “I thought you would never come, Lady Mary,” and he kissed her again. “Why will you persist in ladying me? Have I not told you—stop, now, will you?” and she pushed his mouth away. “Have I not told you as many times as you have seen me to call me Mary only?”

   • 1928, The Letters of Mary Nisbet of Dirleton, Countess of Elgin, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton and Company, page 276:

     I see Bey still continues jealous of poor Mou; does she still go by that name? In Greek it means “my” and her Paramanas always called her Lady Mary Mou, so we called her Mou. I hope you admire my teaching you Greek. I beg you will break Bruce of ladying her, if it should grow up with him it would be detestable.

   • 2006, Jim Butcher, Cursor’s Fury: Book Three of the Codex Alera, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, page 658:

     ‘Then, Lady Placida, there is something I wish to ask of you.’ ‘Only,’ she said sternly, ‘if you stop Ladying me. I have a name, dear.’

   • 2013, Brenda Joyce, A Rose in the Storm, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 130:

     “Lady!” “No, do not ‘lady’ me!” Margaret admonished.

   • 2018, Skye MacKinnon, Winter Princess (Daughter of Winter, Book Two), Peryton Press:

     “How can I help, my lady?” “Stop the ladying. […]”

参考

• lord
• gentleman
• ladies' room
• broad

アナグラム

• DALY, Daly, Dyal, Lyda, layd, yald