dame

See also Dame

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French, from Latin domina

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪm

Noun

dame (plural dames)

1. (UK) The equivalent title to Sir for a female knight.

   Dame Edith Sitwell

2. (informal) Slightly derogatory way of referring to a woman.

   There ain't nothin' like a dame!

3. (archaic) Lady, woman.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:woman

Related terms

• grande dame

Translations

archaic: lady, woman

Hindi: Urath

Scottish Gaelic: baintighearna (gd) f.

equivalent title to Sir for a female knight

slightly derogatory way of referring to a woman

Finnish: daami (fi)

See also

• knight
• madam
• madame
• sir

Anagrams

• ADME
• Edam
• made
• mead

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Danish

Etymology

From French dame (“lady”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /daːmə/, [ˈd̥æːmə], [ˈd̥æːm̩]

Noun

dame c. (singular definite damen, plural indefinite damer)

1. lady
2. woman
3. (card games) queen

Inflection

    Inflection of dame

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	dame	damen	damer	damerne
genitive	dames	damens	damers	damernes

Derived terms

• damet ("ladyish", "ladylike")

See also

• (playing cards) kort, spillekort; es, toer, treer, firer, femmer, sekser, syver, otter, nier, tier, knægt/bonde, dame/dronning, konge, joker ^[edit]
• Dame on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
• Dame (kort) on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia:Dame (kort)

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Dutch

Noun

dame f.

1. lady
2. (chess) queen.

Anagrams

• adem, made

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French

Etymology

From Latin domina

Pronunciation

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• IPA: [daːm]

Noun

dame f. (plural dames)

1. A lady
2. A polite form of address for a woman.
3. (chess) queen
4. (card games) queen

Derived terms

• dame d'attendre
• dame d'honneur
• grande dame
• jeu de dames

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Italian

Noun

dame f.

1. Plural form of dama.

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Japanese

See also dame na

Noun

dame (hiragana だめ)

1. 駄目: no good; useless; hopeless

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Norwegian

Noun

dame m. or f. (definite singular dama/damen; indefinite plural damer; definite plural damene)

1. lady, woman
2. (card games) queen

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Old French

Etymology

Latin domina.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /da.mə/
• Rhymes: -amə

Noun

dame f. (oblique plural dames, nominative singular dame, nominative plural dames)

1. lady; woman

Usage notes

• Unlike modern French, fam usually refers to a wife, while dame refers to a woman

Descendants

• French: dame

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Spanish

Verb

dame (infinitive dar)

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun me: give me!