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dame
English
Etymology
From Middle English dame, dam (“noble lady”), from Old French dame (“lady; term of address for a woman; the queen in card games and chess”), from Latin domina (“mistress of the house”), feminine form of dominus (“lord, master, ruler; owner of a residence”), ultimately either from Proto-Indo-European *demh?- (“to domesticate, tame”) or from Latin domus (“home, house”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build (up)”)). Doublet of domina and donna.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /de?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Noun
dame (plural dames)
- (Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
- (Britain) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
- (Britain, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
- (US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman.
- (archaic) A lady, a woman.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:woman
Derived terms
- beldame
- dame school
- damehood
- damely
Related terms
Translations
See also
- knight
- madam
- madame
- sir
References
Further reading
- dame (title) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- dame (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ADEM, ADME, Adem, Edam, MEDA, Mead, made, mead
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch dame, from Middle Dutch dame, from Middle French dame, from Old French dame, from Latin domina.
Noun
dame (plural dames, diminutive dametjie)
- lady
- (chess) queen
Derived terms
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French dame (“lady”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /da?m?/, [?d?æ?m?]
Noun
dame c (singular definite damen, plural indefinite damer)
- (polite) lady, woman (adult female)
- lady (adult female with a cultivated appearance)
- (informal) girlfriend
- (card games) queen
Inflection
Derived terms
- damet (“ladyish, ladylike”)
See also
- dame on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Dame (kort) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch dame, from Middle French dame, from Old French dame, from Latin domina.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da?.m?/
- Hyphenation: da?me
- Rhymes: -a?m?
Noun
dame f (plural dames, diminutive dametje n)
- lady
- noblewoman
- Polite term or title of address for any (adult or adolescent) woman.
- (chess, card games) queen
- Synonym: koningin
Derived terms
- damesblad
- damesfiets
- dameskapper
- dameskleding
- damestoilet
- dameszadel
- eredame
- hofdame
Related terms
- madam
Descendants
- Afrikaans: dame
See also
Anagrams
- adem, made
French
Etymology
From Old French dame, from Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dam/
- Rhymes: -am
Noun
dame f (plural dames)
- A lady
- A polite form of address for a woman.
- (chess) queen
- (card games) queen
Usage notes
Occasionally, in very formal or official registers, dame can be used as a title with a woman's name, for example dame Jeanne Dupont. Normal usage would be Madame Jeanne Dupont.
Synonyms
- de, lady, madame
Derived terms
- dame blanche
- dame d'attendre
- dame d'honneur
- Dame Nature
- grande dame
- jeu de dames
- madame
Descendants
- ? Catalan: dama
- ? Friulian: dame
- ? Galician: dama
- ? German: Dame
- ? Polish: dama
- ? Portuguese: dama
- ? Romanian: dam?
- ? Spanish: dama
See also
Further reading
- “dame” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
dame f
- plural of dama
Japanese
Romanization
dame
- R?maji transcription of ??
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French dame, from Latin domina.
Alternative forms
- damme, dam
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da?m(?)/, /?dam(?)/
Noun
dame (plural dames)
- lady (high-ranking or noble woman):
- abbess (governor of a nunnery)
- (rare) A female anchorite (with servants)
- A housewife (mistress of a family)
- A mother (of humans, animals, or plants)
- A term of address for a noble lady.
- A respectful term of address for any woman (sometimes sarcastic).
Related terms
- madame
- stepdame
Descendants
- English: dame; dam
- Scots: dame, deem; dam
References
- “d?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Noun
dame
- Alternative form of dam (“dam”)
Etymology 3
Verb
dame
- Alternative form of dampnen
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin domina, via Old French dame and late Old Norse damma.
Noun
dame f or m (definite singular dama or damen, indefinite plural damer, definite plural damene)
- a lady, woman
- (romantic relationship) a girlfriend
- (card games) a queen
Derived terms
References
- “dame” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin domina, via Old French dame and late Old Norse damma.
Noun
dame f (definite singular dama, indefinite plural damer, definite plural damene)
- a lady, woman
- (romantic relationship) a girlfriend
- (card games) a queen
Derived terms
References
- “dame” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?dãm?]
- Rhymes: -am?
Noun
dame f (oblique plural dames, nominative singular dame, nominative plural dames)
- lady; woman
Usage notes
- Unlike in modern French, fame usually refers to a wife, while dame refers to a woman.
Descendants
- Bourguignon: daime
- Franc-Comtois: daime
- ? Italian: dama
- Lorrain: daime
- ? Middle English: dame, damme, dam
- English: dame; dam
- Scots: dame, deem; dam
- Middle French: dame
- French: dame
- ? Catalan: dama
- ? Friulian: dame
- ? Galician: dama
- ? German: Dame
- ? Polish: dama
- ? Portuguese: dama
- ? Romanian: dam?
- ? Spanish: dama
- ? Middle Dutch: dame
- Dutch: dame
- French: dame
- Norman: dame
- ? Norwegian Bokmål: dame
- ? Norwegian Nynorsk: dame
- Picard: danme
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?dame]
Noun
dame f
- indefinite plural of dam?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of dam?
Spanish
Verb
dame
- Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun me: give me!
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damsel
English
Alternative forms
- damoiselle, damosel, damozel (archaic)
Etymology
From Middle English dameisele, from Old French damoisele, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella, a diminutive from Classical Latin domina (“mistress, lady”), from dominus, from *demh?-. Doublet of demoiselle, doncella, and donzella.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?dæmz?l/
Noun
damsel (plural damsels)
- A young woman (of noble birth).
- A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience).
- A young woman who is not married.
- An unmarried lady-in-waiting.
- A chattering damsel (component of a mill).
- 1843, The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art (volume 4, page 263)
- The spout that conveys the grain from the hopper to the eye or centre of the upper millstone rests against the spindle, just at the damsel, and thus receives an alternate back and forward motion, […]
- 1843, The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art (volume 4, page 263)
Derived terms
- damsel in distress
- damselfish
- damselfly
- riverdamsel
Translations
Anagrams
- damels, delams, lameds, medals
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