old lady
old lady
Definition
old lady
noun
- one's mother
- one's wife
- one's girlfriend or mistress, often, specif., when one lives with her
old lady*
Synonyms
old lady*
n.
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.
Browse dictionary entries near old lady
- Old Irish
- Old Ionic
- Old Indic
- Old Icelandic
- Old High German
- Old Hickory
- old hat
- Old Harry
- old hand
- Old Guard
- Old Latin
- old-line
- Old Low Franconian
- Old Low German
- old maid
- old man
- Old Man River
- old master
- old money
- old moon
