Our Lady

noun

1. a title of the Virgin Mary.

Our Lady

noun

1. a title given to the Virgin Mary

Word History and Origins

Origin of Our Lady¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

In “Sacrament,” Straight turns her singular focus to a handful of nurses camping in a wagon train of funky, sweltering trailers near the hospital they call Our Lady.

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Outside the Church of Our Lady of Candelaria in Caracas, thousands of people watched the canonization ceremony in Rome -- about dawn in Venezuela -- on a large screen.

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In the middle ground, beneath a hill, stands a village with a basilica dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe—the site, associated with pre-Hispanic deities, where an indigenous peasant saw the Virgin in 1531, when Spain ruled.

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Its owners, the Institute of Our Lady of Mercy, a catholic order based in Leeds, said it hoped to find a "charitable" use for the land and buildings.

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The school was founded by the order in the 19th Century before being entered into a 99-year lease to a charity run by its governors, Our Lady's Abingdon Trustees Ltd, in 2007.

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