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FIRST LADY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does first lady mean? 

FIRST LADY (noun)
  The noun FIRST LADY has 2 senses:

1. the leading woman in an art or professionplay

2. the wife of a chief executiveplay

  Familiarity information: FIRST LADY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FIRST LADY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The leading woman in an art or profession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("first lady" is a kind of...):

achiever; succeeder; success; winner (a person with a record of successes)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The wife of a chief executive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("first lady" is a kind of...):

married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)


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