dame
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English dame, dam, from Old French dame, from Latin domina.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dame (plural dames)
- (Britain) The equivalent title to Sir for a female knight.
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- (dated, informal, slightly derogatory, US) A woman.
- 1903, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 37:
- "I can see that would be the kind of a chap that the dames would stand for everlastingly."
- 1949, Oscar Hammerstein II, "There is Nothing Like a Dame", South Pacific
- There ain't nothin' like a dame! / Nothin' in the world! / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a dame!
- 1903, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 37:
- A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
- (archaic) Lady, woman.
- (Britain) A matron at Eton College.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:woman
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
archaic: lady, woman
equivalent title to Sir for a female knight
slightly derogatory way of referring to a woman
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French dame (“lady”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dame c (singular definite damen, plural indefinite damer)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of dame
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
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Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file) - Hyphenation: da‧me
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Old French dame, from Latin domina.
Noun[edit]
dame f (plural dames, diminutive dametje n)
See also[edit]
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French dame, from Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dame f (plural dames)
- A lady
- A polite form of address for a woman.
- (chess) queen
- (card games) queen
Derived terms[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
- “dame” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
dame f
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
dame
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin domina, via Old French dame and late Old Norse damma.
Noun[edit]
dame f, m (definite singular dama or damen, indefinite plural damer, definite plural damene)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “dame” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin domina, via Old French dame and late Old Norse damma.
Noun[edit]
dame f (definite singular dama, indefinite plural damer, definite plural damene)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “dame” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
dame f (oblique plural dames, nominative singular dame, nominative plural dames)
Usage notes[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
dame
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