dame

See also: Dame

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French, from Latin domina

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /deɪm/
• Rhymes: -eɪm

Noun

dame (plural dames)

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

   Dame Edith Sitwell

2. (informal, slightly derogatory, US) A woman.

   There ain't nothin' like a dame!

3. A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
4. (archaic) Lady, woman.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:woman

Related terms

• grande dame

Translations

archaic: lady, woman

• Portuguese: dama (pt) f
• Russian: дама (ru) f (dáma), госпожа (ru) f (gospožá), сударыня (ru) f (sudárynja)

• Scottish Gaelic: baintighearna (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: dama f, gospa

equivalent title to Sir for a female knight

• Portuguese: dama (pt) f
• Russian: леди (ru) f (lédi), дейм f (dɛjm), дама (ru) f (dáma)

• Serbo-Croatian: dama

slightly derogatory way of referring to a woman

• Finnish: daami (fi)
• Russian: дамочка (ru) f (dámočka), бабёнка (ru) f (babjónka) (derogatory), баба (ru) f (bába) (derogatory), тётка (ru) f (tjótka)

See also

• knight
• madam
• madame
• sir

Anagrams

• ADME
• Edam
• made
• mead

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Danish

Etymology

From French dame (“lady”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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	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

Pronunciation

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Noun

dame f (plural dames, diminutive dametje n)

1. lady
2. (chess) queen.

Anagrams

• adem, made

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French

Etymology

From Latin domina

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [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

Romanization

dame

1. rōmaji reading of だめ

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dame f, m (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^(key): /da.mə/
• Rhymes: -amə

Noun

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

1. lady; woman

Usage notes

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

Descendants

• French: dame

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Spanish

Verb

dame

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