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old lady Definition

old lady

noun

  1. one's mother
  2. one's wife
  3. one's girlfriend or mistress, often, specif., when one lives with her

old lady* Synonyms

old lady*

n.

wife, female parent, female spouse, woman, girlfriend, lover, female member of the family; see also mother 1, parent, wife.

old lady Usage Examples

Possessives

  • eye: Suddenly the old lady's eyes opened to their widest.

Converse of object

  • help: I helped old ladies to choose second- hand dresses.
  • present: This 72 year old lady presented with a three month history of colicky lower abdominal pain and rectal bleeding.
  • visit: And why is it that every time you visit an old lady, she drops dead?
  • know: Two examples are " I know an old lady who killed all the flies " and " .
  • get: I've got an idea for one sketch where we get an old lady to swear at a clown.
  • name: Pop Larkin buys some unwanted belongings from an old lady named Mrs Meredith.

Adjective modifier

  • little: The little old lady 's with their handbags will be played by love island staff.
  • frail: On arrival at Boxy House, we found the door open and a frail old lady cowering behind it.
  • sweet: That's when the trouble started as the sweet little old lady wasn't sweet at all.
  • other: Her next job was to prepare breakfast for the other old lady, Mrs Filmer, Wykham's mother.
  • white-haired: Afterward, she and the old, white-haired lady watched them ride off on their bicycles down the long, white, empty road.
  • charming: He said what a charming old lady her mother was, and the girl suddenly revealed a similar capacity to chatter.

Preposition: with

  • blogs: I have an eighty year old lady with seven blogs who literally runs rings around me!

Preposition: in

  • street: Even the old ladies in the street noticed me.