What's the difference between lady and queen?

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.

Queen


Definition:

  • (n.) A male homosexual, esp. one who is effeminate or dresses in women's clothing.
  • (v. i.) To act the part of a queen.
  • (n.) The wife of a king.
  • (n.) A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
  • (n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.
  • (n.) The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.
  • (n.) The most powerful, and except the king the most important, piece in a set of chessmen.
  • (n.) A playing card bearing the picture of a queen; as, the queen of spades.
  • (v. i.) To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Army Reserve.
  • (2) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
  • (3) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
  • (4) Buckingham Palace was drawn into the dispute when it was revealed that Pownall had sought advice from the Lord Chamberlain, a key officer in the royal household, on the potential misuse of the portcullis emblem due to it being the property of the Queen.
  • (5) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
  • (6) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
  • (7) The Queen Boat case was one of three big sex stories that helped to squeeze bad news out of the papers around the same time.
  • (8) "Throughout America, the Queen stands for decency and civility."
  • (9) When the plane bringing his friend in touched down, they were greeted with a recorded welcome from the Queen telling them that they had now arrived in a safe country.
  • (10) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (11) Possible options for a temporary, alternative building have previously included the nearby Queen Elizabeth II building and the Central Methodist Hall.
  • (12) At Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital from 1980 to 1987, 195 women had a trial of scar in their second ongoing pregnancy, having been delivered previously by elective caesarean section.
  • (13) Gove's intervention has been seen as unhelpful by some Conservative party officials who are in the midst of ensuring that this week's expected vote on an amendment to the Queen's speech does not become a vote on Cameron's authority.
  • (14) In 1835, before she became Queen, a young Victoria stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse, which has almost 400 rooms.
  • (15) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
  • (16) Queen's speech: the day ‘psychoactive drugs’ tripped off the royal tongue Read more The first Queen’s speech of the second term should be golden.
  • (17) Those fed royal jelly as larvae emerge as queens and do little but lay eggs.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen hosts the banquet in the Buckingham Palace ballroom.
  • (19) In its determination to probe the (semi) private lives of the nation's kings and queens, no imperial pyjama leg is left unplundered.
  • (20) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.