first lady

1. 1.

   the leading woman in an art or profession

   Broaderachiever
2. 2.

   the wife of a chief executive

   Broaderwife

Questions about first lady

What does first lady mean?

first lady means "the leading woman in an art or profession". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is first lady a common word?

first lady is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.