Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

charlady

/ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: char-la-dy
IPA: /ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.

Archaic

Example Sentences

""Then we'll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below."
"MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean that novelists and dramatists hate charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own book or his own play."
"He is shown choking back tears as he discovers that his great, great, great grandmother was a charlady in Scotland who died in her thirties of tuberculosis and exhaustion."

Etymology

From char (“chore”) + lady.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

charladies (plural)

Synonyms

char charwoman Mrs Mop

Questions

How do you pronounce charlady?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtʃɑːˌleɪ.di/.
What does charlady mean?: A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.
Where does charlady come from?: From char (“chore”) + lady.

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