lady

Other forms of lady

plural

ladies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lady

What does lady mean?

lady means "a polite name for any woman". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lady?

lady has 2 syllables: la-dy. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈleɪdi/.

What is another word for lady?

Close synonyms include dame, madam, ma'am, gentlewoman, noblewoman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of lady?

The recorded antonyms are Lord.

Is lady a common word?

lady is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lady?

1 word rhymes with lady. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.