Lady
Lady noun - An adult female human being.
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Older woman and lady are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Older woman" instead a noun "Lady".
Older woman
Lady and older woman are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lady" instead a noun phrase "Older woman".
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- In the Great Teacher Onizuka manga, Kunio Murai spots Onizuka walking around with an ugly, fat older woman, and has this reaction before learning that the lady in question is his friend's mother.
Source: Laugh Themselves Sick - Played and kind of parodied in the colombian Soap Opera Las Juanas, when the main heroine, in front of an older woman she hasn't introduced yet, and not knowing what to call her, decides to call her "Doña" (the spanish equivalent of "Ma'am") and the older lady becomes enraged.
Source: Ma'am Shock -
In Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado Prince Nanki-Poo disguises himself as a minstrel to escape the advances of Lady Katisha, a much older woman who wants his hand in marriage.
Source: King Incognito
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Older woman and Lady. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/lady/older_woman
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