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LADY-IN-WAITING (ladies-in-waiting)

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• LADY-IN-WAITING (noun)
The noun LADY-IN-WAITING has 1 sense:

1. a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess

Familiarity information: LADY-IN-WAITING used as a noun is very rare.

• LADY-IN-WAITING (noun)

Sense 1

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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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