LADY-IN-WAITING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: ladies-in-waiting   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lady-in-waiting" is a kind of...):

Lady; noblewoman; peeress (a woman of the peerage in Britain)

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