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ladydom

ladydom noun: the quality of being a lady; ladyhood.

Noun

ladydom (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a lady; ladyhood.
    • It constitutes, as it were, the dandydom, the fine-ladydom, the ornamental portion of the denomination to which it belongs; the ribbons, and false flowers, and tinsel, and spangles, and gimcracks of the old lady's cap.1858, The Rambler, page 191
    • Though all the servants knew of my rejecting the state of ladydom, the less familiar pair rejected me outright because of that attitude. Only a mad person, they believed, required convincing to become superior in English society […]2018, H. C. Turk, Black Body

Origin of ladydom

From lady + -dom.

Questions about ladydom

What does ladydom mean?
Ladydom means the quality of being a lady; ladyhood.
What part of speech is ladydom?
Ladydom is a noun.

Words near ladydom in the dictionary

  1. ladyclocks
  2. ladycow
  3. ladycows
  4. Ladyday
  5. Ladydays
  6. ladydom
  7. ladye
  8. ladyes
  9. ladyfern
  10. ladyferns
  11. ladyfied

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