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his | lady |

As nouns the difference between his and lady

is that his is b sharp while lady is an aristocratic title for a woman; the wife of a lord and/or a woman who holds the position in her own right; a title for a peeress, the wife of a peer or knight, and the daughters and daughters-in-law of certain peers.

As a proper noun lady is

the title for the (primary) female deity in female-centered religions.

his

English

(wikipedia his)

Determiner

  • Belonging to him.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:
    • With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his' man would be there with a message to say that ' his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}
  • * 2011 , Xan Rice, The Guardian , 8 Apr 2011:
    • In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.
  • (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
  • *, II.2:
    • My stomacke could not well reach so farre: it is very much troubled to come to an end of that which it takes for his need.
  • * 1611 , Matthew 5:13, King James Version:
    • Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
  • (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s'' after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in ''-s , to express the possessive case.
    • Ahab his mark'' for ''Ahab's mark .

    Usage notes

    * When followed by a noun, it is sometimes referred to as a possessive adjective , qualifying the following noun. It is, however, the possessive case of the personal pronoun he.

    See also

    (English personal pronouns)

    Pronoun

  • That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
    • The decision was his to live with.

    • See also

    * he * her * hers * him * hisn

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    lady

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia lady) (ladies)
  • (historical)  The mistress of a household.
  • *
    • , chapter=16 , passage="he said to her, From whence comest thou Hagar, the servantess of Sarai (Sarai’s slave-girl), and whither goest thou? Which answered, I flee from the face of Sarai, my lady.”}}
  • A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=6 citation , passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
  • * Lowell
    • lord or lady of high degree
  • * Shakespeare
    • Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, / We make thee lady .
  • (polite, or, used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
  • (in the plural)
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
  • (slang)
  • Toilets intended for use by women.
  • (familiar) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
  • * (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliet)
    • But soft, what light through yonder window breaks...? It is my lady , O it is my love!
    (Goldsmith)
  • A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
  • * Waller
    • The soldier here his wasted store supplies, / And takes new valour from his lady's eyes.
  • (slang) A queen (the playing card).
  • (dated, attributive, with a professional title) Who is a woman.
  • (Wicca) .
  • The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.

    • Derived terms

    * bag lady * charlady * dragon lady * the First Lady * forelady * gray lady * ladies and gentlemen * lady's bedstraw * lady's eardrop * lady's laces * lady's man * lady's mantle * lady's slipper * lady's thistle * lady's thumb * lady abbess * lady beetle * lady bird/lady-bird/ladybird * Lady Bountifel * lady bug/lady-bug/ladybug * Lady Campbell * lady chapel * ladyclock * lady crab * Lady Day * lady fern/lady-fern * lady's finger * ladyfinger * lady friend * Lady Godiva * lady-in-waiting * lady killer, lady-killer, ladykiller * ladylike * ladylove * Lady Macbeth strategy * Lady McLeod * lady of leisure * lady of pleasure * lady of the house * lady of the night * lady or tiger * ladyship * lady smock * lady who lunches * landlady * leading lady * lollipop lady * lunch lady/lunch-lady/lunchlady * m'lady/malady/milady * naked lady * no way to treat a lady * old lady * one fat lady * Our Lady * painted lady * Pink Lady/pink lady * saleslady * Tupperware lady * two fat ladies * saleslady * white lady * young lady * (lady)

    References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    See also

    * lord * gentleman * ladies' room * broad

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