YOUNG LADY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does young lady mean? 

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

1. a young female

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YOUNG LADY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young female

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman

Context example:

a young lady of 18

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"):

May queen; queen of the May (the girl chosen queen of a May Day festival)

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)

belle (a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals)

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)

 Context examples 

But first of all, you must tell me the name of the young lady I am going to talk about.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They never once thought of her heart, which, for the parents of a young lady of seventeen, just returned from her first excursion from home, was odd enough!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

That will do, that will do, young lady.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He loves (as he can love, and that is not as you love) a beautiful young lady called Rosamond.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It would not be fair to inquire into a young lady's exact estimate of her own perfections.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

However, she seems a very obliging, pretty-behaved young lady, and no doubt will make him a very good wife.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The young lady blushed and laughed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The young lady resumed her seat with an air of displeasure.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But let him go to which extreme he may, sir, there's a young lady in both of 'em.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)