dame

See also: Damɛ, Dame, and dáme

§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. (dated, informal, slightly derogatory, US) A woman.
   • 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!

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 (sh) f, gospa (sh)

equivalent title to Sir for a female knight

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

• Serbo-Croatian: dama (sh)

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

§Etymology

From Old French, from Latin domina

§Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: da‧me

§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

• audio

  (file)

• 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

§External links

• “dame” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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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 or 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!