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==Other meanings== The special use of the word as a [[Titles of Mary|title]] of the [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Virgin Mary]], usually ''[[Our Lady (disambiguation)|Our Lady]]'', represents the [[Latin]] ''Domina Nostra''. In [[Lady Day]] and [[Lady Chapel]], the word is properly a [[genitive case|genitive]], representing ''hlǣfdigan''<ref name=EB1911/> "of the Lady". The word is also used as a title of the [[Wicca]]n Goddess, ''The Lady''. [[Margaret Thatcher]] was informally referred to in the same way by many of her political colleagues when [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]. Her husband was later created a baronet, thus making her "Lady Thatcher" as of right. After she retired, she was given a barony as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire, and was thereafter known as "The Lady Thatcher". Elsewhere in the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]], the word is used in a similar fashion to aristocratic usage in Britain. In Ghana, for example, the consort of the [[Asantehene]] of the [[Ashanti people]] is known as [[Julia Osei Tutu|Lady Julia Osei Tutu]]. In Nigeria, the [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] aristocrats [[Kofoworola Ademola|Kofoworola, Lady Ademola]] and [[Oyinkansola Abayomi|Oyinkansola, Lady Abayomi]] made use of the title due to their being the wives of British knights.
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