text: It just means that the woman is so special, so classy, so refined that she stands out. She is the most elegant and graceful woman you have ever known, she is three times a lady. The definition of a lady is a woman who has high standards of proper behavior, is well-mannered, polite, not to mention gorgeous...she is somewhat like a queen.\n\nLionel Richie was singing about a really special woman who made him really good. Three times a lady.