(n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.
Example Sentences:
(1) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(2) Rivett was found bludgeoned to death with a lead pipe at the countess’s home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street on the evening of 7 November 1974.
(3) The guests included the Duke of Gloucester; Sophie, countess of Wessex; and the Duke of Norfolk, whose responsibilities include royal funerals.
(4) The Queen arrived at the chapel with the Duke of Edinburgh, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Prince Edward , the Countess of Wessex and their children also attended the service.
(5) As we speak the final 10 days of production are under way, meaning farewell to the show’s trump card, Highclere Castle, home of real-life aristocrats, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.
(6) One of the blaggers who regularly worked for him, John Gunning, was responsible for obtaining details of bank accounts belonging to Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, which were then sold to the Sunday Mirror.
(7) She had nothing like the public profile of previous victims such as the Duchess of York, the Countess of Wessex or the former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson.
(8) According to close associates of Rees, he also targeted: • Jack Straw when he was home secretary, Peter Mandelson when he was trade secretary and Blair's media adviser Alastair Campbell; • Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, all of whom are said to have had their bank accounts penetrated, and Kate Middleton when she was Prince William's girlfriend; • The former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir John Stevens, and the current assistant commissioner, John Yates , who later supervised the failed phone-hacking inquiry for 19 months; • The governor and deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose mortgage account details were obtained and sold.
(9) Thank you,” replied Dame Disaster, looking only moderately surprised not to have been made a countess for her contribution to public life.
(10) 2001: new plans are made for a £65m Australian-designed Denton Corker Marshall visitor centre, east of the stones at Countess roundabout.
(11) But Lord Byron was, perhaps, the most direct of them all: “We of the craft are all crazy,” he told the Countess of Blessington, casting a wary eye over his fellow poets.
(12) The story of the Grantham family has reached 1924, and, according to Mrs Hughes, “Downton is catching up with the times we live in.” “That is exactly what I’m afraid of,” replies Carson, suggesting yet more resistance to impending modernity – which, of course, means plenty of opportunity for baffled zingers from the Dowager Countess.
(13) He blamed the errors on his busy schedule: when he finished his thesis in 2006, he was juggling his duties as an MP and raising two daughters with his TV presenter wife, the equally blue-blooded Countess Stephanie von Bismarck.
(14) The playwright Gregory Murphy wrote The Countess, which dealt with the same affair and appeared successfully on Broadway in 1999 and subsequently in the West End in London.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen with her five great-grandchildren and two youngest grandchildren: James, Viscount Severn (L), eight, and Lady Louise (2nd L), 12, the children of the Earl and Countess of Wessex; Mia Tindall (holding the Queen’s handbag), two, daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall; Savannah (3rd R), five, and Isla Phillips (R), three, daughters of Peter and Autumn Phillips; Prince George (2nd R), two, and, in the Queen’s arms, Princess Charlotte (11 months), children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
(16) The countess was set up by the News of the World at the Dorchester hotel, where she had gone to secure a PR contract with a Saudi prince.
(17) The palace also provided details of an eclectic music programme, courtesy of the Countess of Wessex’s String Orchestra, which ranged from Robert Farnon’s The Westminster Waltz, through to Irish and Chinese folk songs and the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby.
(18) Its isolation no doubt attracted the Roman countess and her lewd husband who held lavish sex parties on the island 40 years ago.
(19) Perhaps Amanda Feilding , Countess of Wemyss and March, can explain it to me.
(20) I am sure the countess is right that the move would bring in revenue.
Lady
Definition:
(n.) A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
(n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
(n.) A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
(n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right.
(n.) A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman.
(n.) A wife; -- not now in approved usage.
(n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.
(a.) Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.
() The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(2) A 27-year-old lady presented with history of discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing for two weeks.
(3) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(4) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
(5) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(6) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(7) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(8) --A fit of acute depersonnalisation in a young lady was suppressed within eight days with the administration of 1 g p.o.
(9) A 43-year-old lady was hospitalized due to easy fatiguability in the legs during exercise, and for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the chest X-ray, and hypertension.
(10) The accident on 10 April 2010, killed the president, first lady and dozens of senior officials, in the worst Polish air disaster since the second world war.
(11) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
(12) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
(13) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
(14) Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Charles Antaki, he's here all week, try the Imodium.
(15) Contemporary songs - by Adele, Lady Gaga, La Roux - are simulacra of those produced in the 60s, 70s and 80s.)
(16) "I have just seen a piece of straw flying over, which the hon lady is attempting to clutch at!"
(17) He could say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, today we have totally defeated Isis,’ and it wouldn’t sound good, OK, all right?
(18) The government, too, is keen to strike a conciliatory note, at least compared with the strident tones of the Iron Lady's day.
(19) As Bernard Levin noted in 1977 when she was playing Lady Macbeth and Lady Plyant in Congreve's The Double Dealer at the National: "She is tiny.
(20) A case of an aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva in a 38-year-old lady is reported.