"mail lady" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mailman"
    },
    {
      "word": "postman"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mail",
        "3": "lady"
      },
      "expansion": "mail + lady",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mail + lady.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mail ladies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mail lady (plural mail ladies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
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            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
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            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
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        },
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Post",
          "orig": "en:Post",
          "parents": [
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, page 142:",
          "text": "The mail lady just arrived...with 3 letters from you which I was cheered to get.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Claudia Allen, She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays, page 142:",
          "text": "The mail lady enters, singing to herself, the proverbial bull in a china shop.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, W. A. Mathieu, The Musical Life:",
          "text": "...put up the flag for the mail lady.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Rick Bass, “Almost Lake Hibernation”, in The Book of Yaak, page 17:",
          "text": "In the winter, you can hear the mail coming longe before you can see the mail lady...She'll come to the window, too, and watch the mail lady take our letters...out of the snow-covered mailbox",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard Barcalow, Marc McLemore, and Daniel Stiles, “Enter, the Mail Lady! 16:41”, in Hell's Ambrosia, page 55:",
          "text": "...such an action might put the mail lady in danger. His first priority was protecting the mail lady.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Michael Feldman, Something I Said?, page 10:",
          "text": "\"That was close,\" I quip to the mail lady.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Connie May Fowler, Remembering Blue: A Novel:",
          "text": "But after Miss Shriver passed (she had been Lethe's mail lady for thirty years), Vanessa took her place. Not long after becoming our mail lady, she married Bud Crawford, Carrabelle's city attorney.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female postal worker."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "mail carrier"
        },
        {
          "word": "letter carrier"
        },
        {
          "word": "postal carrier"
        },
        {
          "word": "postal worker"
        },
        {
          "word": "mailperson"
        },
        {
          "word": "postperson"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-mail_lady-en-noun-VYOyR9w7",
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "postal worker",
          "postal worker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A female postal worker."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "mailwoman"
        },
        {
          "word": "postwoman"
        },
        {
          "word": "post lady"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mail lady"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mailman"
    },
    {
      "word": "postman"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mail",
        "3": "lady"
      },
      "expansion": "mail + lady",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From mail + lady.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mail ladies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mail lady (plural mail ladies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "mail carrier"
    },
    {
      "word": "letter carrier"
    },
    {
      "word": "postal carrier"
    },
    {
      "word": "postal worker"
    },
    {
      "word": "mailperson"
    },
    {
      "word": "postperson"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Occupations",
        "en:People",
        "en:Post"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, page 142:",
          "text": "The mail lady just arrived...with 3 letters from you which I was cheered to get.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Claudia Allen, She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays, page 142:",
          "text": "The mail lady enters, singing to herself, the proverbial bull in a china shop.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, W. A. Mathieu, The Musical Life:",
          "text": "...put up the flag for the mail lady.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Rick Bass, “Almost Lake Hibernation”, in The Book of Yaak, page 17:",
          "text": "In the winter, you can hear the mail coming longe before you can see the mail lady...She'll come to the window, too, and watch the mail lady take our letters...out of the snow-covered mailbox",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard Barcalow, Marc McLemore, and Daniel Stiles, “Enter, the Mail Lady! 16:41”, in Hell's Ambrosia, page 55:",
          "text": "...such an action might put the mail lady in danger. His first priority was protecting the mail lady.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Michael Feldman, Something I Said?, page 10:",
          "text": "\"That was close,\" I quip to the mail lady.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Connie May Fowler, Remembering Blue: A Novel:",
          "text": "But after Miss Shriver passed (she had been Lethe's mail lady for thirty years), Vanessa took her place. Not long after becoming our mail lady, she married Bud Crawford, Carrabelle's city attorney.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female postal worker."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "postal worker",
          "postal worker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A female postal worker."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "mailwoman"
    },
    {
      "word": "postwoman"
    },
    {
      "word": "post lady"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mail lady"
}