1 (Her / Your Ladyship) a title used when talking to or about a woman who is a member of the NOBILITY:
Does Your Ladyship require anything?
2 (BrE, spoken) a way of talking to or about a girl or woman that you think is trying to be too important:
Perhaps her ladyship would like to hang up her own clothes today!
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ladyship is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ladyship a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ladyship is tagged as noun.
Does ladyship appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — ladyship appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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