cleaning lady vs adult female

cleaning lady and adult female both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cleaning lady	Yes	No	No	No
adult female	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, adult female is a hypernym of cleaning lady; that is, adult female is a word with a broader meaning than cleaning lady:

Other hypernyms of cleaning lady include cleaner, woman.

cleaning lady (noun)	adult female (noun)
a human female employed to do housework	an adult female person (as opposed to a man)