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YOUNG LADY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A young female
Example:
a young lady of 18
Synonyms:
fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("young lady" is a kind of...):
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "young lady"):
working girl (a young woman who is employed)
valley girl (a girl who grew up in the tract housing in the San Fernando Valley)
hoyden; romp; tomboy (a girl who behaves in a boyish manner)
sweater girl (a girl with an attractive bust who wears tight sweaters)
soubrette (a pert or flirtatious young girl)
shop girl (a young female shop assistant)
sex bomb; sex kitten; sexpot (a young woman who is thought to have sex appeal)
rosebud ((a literary reference to) a pretty young girl)
ring girl (a young woman who holds up cards indicating the number of the next round at prize fights)
peri (a beautiful and graceful girl)
party girl (an attractive young woman hired to attend parties and entertain men)
mill-girl (a girl who works in a mill)
May queen; queen of the May (the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival)
maid; maiden (an unmarried girl (especially a virgin))
jeune fille; lass; lassie; young girl (a girl or young woman who is unmarried)
Gibson girl (the idealized American girl of the 1890s as pictured by C. D. Gibson)
gamine (a girl of impish appeal)
gal (alliterative term for girl (or woman))
flapper (a young woman in the 1920s who flaunted her unconventional conduct and dress)
bird; chick; dame; doll; skirt; wench (informal terms for a (young) woman)
colleen (an Irish girl)
chit (a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect)
chachka; tchotchke; tchotchkeleh; tsatske; tshatshke ((Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman)
bimbo (a young woman indulged by rich and powerful older men)
belle (a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals)
Context examples:
Oh! yes—the handsomest young lady that ever was seen; and so accomplished!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Yes, ma'am, she said how she was very well; and to my mind she was always a very handsome young lady—and she seemed vastly contented.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
When you meet a young lady an' she asks you to call, how soon can you call?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
When the witch and the young lady heard of his beautiful salad, they longed to taste it, and said, Dear countryman, let us just taste it.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
But I was so much displeased, that I entreated Glumdalclitch to contrive some excuse for not seeing that young lady any more.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They be all very well for comers and trippers, an' the like, but not for a nice young lady like you.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The old lady was too dazed with grief to be of any use to us, but at her side was a white-faced young lady, who introduced herself as Miss Violet Westbury, the fiancée of the dead man, and the last to see him upon that fatal night.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He stood irresolute, uncertain whether to advance or to take no notice; but, even as he hesitated, the mirror was whipped in, and a tall and stately young lady swept out from behind the oaken screen, with a dancing light of mischief in her eyes.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Was not the young lady he danced with on Monday a Miss Smith?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
That young lady, you know, that we have all been so concerned for.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
