Ladyとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪdi/
• 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: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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 222716698, 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. (familiar) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
    • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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 March, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. Supposed to be Written by Himself, volume (please specify |volume=I または II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], OCLC 938500648:

      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.

14. (Wicca) Alternative form of Lady.
15. 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. (Britain, slang) A five-pound note. (Rhyming スラング, Lady Godiva for fiver.)
17. (slang) A woman’s breast.

派生語

• Pages starting with “lady”.

派生した語

• → French: lady
• → Italian: lady

参照

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

参考

• lord
• gentleman
• ladies' room
• broad

アナグラム

• DALY, Daly, Dyal, Lyda, layd, yald