OLD LADY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does old lady mean? 

• OLD LADY (noun)
  The noun OLD LADY has 1 sense:

1. your own wife

  Familiarity information: OLD LADY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD LADY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Your own wife

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

meet my old lady

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

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

 Context examples 

I would never think of running a hundred miles to see an old lady who will, perhaps, be dead before you reach her: besides, you say she cast you off.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The old lady likes me, and I'll be as sweet as possible to her, so she won't peck at us, whatever we do.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But surely you may put off this old lady till to-morrow: she is not so near her end, I presume, but that she may hope to see another day.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The letter was reluctantly produced; and as I handed it to the old lady, I saw how the unwilling hand from which I took it, trembled.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The old lady is Mrs. Jenkinson, who lives with them; the other is Miss de Bourgh.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Bates, the widow of a former vicar of Highbury, was a very old lady, almost past every thing but tea and quadrille.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I will let the old lady in; she seems to be a very good sort of body, thought Snowdrop, as she ran down and unbolted the door.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The pleasant old lady had appeared in the doorway.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Well, I never!" said the old lady.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mrs. R. knows a decline is apprehended; he saw her this morning: she returns to Wimpole Street to-day; the old lady is come.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)