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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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queen
English
Alternative forms
- queene, quene, queyne (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cw?n (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kw?ni, from Proto-Germanic *kw?niz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?énh?s (“woman”). Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon qu?n ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic ???????????????? (q?ns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin r?g?na (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of gyne.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwi?n/, [k?w?i?n], enPR: kw?n
- Rhymes: -i?n
- Homophone: quean
Noun
queen (plural queens)
- A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
- The wife or widow of a king.
- (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carom.
- A powerful or forceful female person.
- (LGBT, slang, often derogatory) An effeminate male homosexual. (See usage notes.)
- (Can we date this quote?), Bebe Scarpi, quoted in 2007, Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York ?ISBN, page 196:
- Despite one's opinion of Sylvia I can attest to the purity of her intent and dedication, and, no one will dare deny she is one gutsy queen.
- (Can we date this quote?), Bebe Scarpi, quoted in 2007, Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York ?ISBN, page 196:
- (LGBT, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
- A queen olive.
- 1984, United States International Trade Commission, Bottled green olives from Spain (page A-24)
- Prices for the two main types of Spanish style green olives - manzanillas and queens - vary according to the size of the crop of each. In some years queens will be more expensive than manzanillas […]
- 1984, United States International Trade Commission, Bottled green olives from Spain (page A-24)
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., esp. Danaus gilippus).
Usage notes
- (LGBT): The term can be either derogatory or a self-identification. (Compare nigger.)
- (LGBT): Some of the people who were historically (in the late 1960s and 1970s) described as "queens" or "drag queens" or "street queens" are now sometimes considered transgender, especially when their gender identity is female or non-binary/genderqueer rather than male. Some people, like Sylvia Rivera, self-identified as both a "transgender person" and a "street queen". Drag queens, too, can have any gender identity.
Synonyms
- (female monarch): queen regnant, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
- (wife of a king): queen consort, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
- (LGBT): See Thesaurus:male homosexual
- (playing card): bitch, cowgirl, girl, lady, mop squeezer
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown
- Sikaiana: kuini
Translations
See also
Verb
queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)
- To make a queen.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
- (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen of a colony.
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
- 2000, "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance
- Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).
- 2000, "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance
Derived terms
- queen out
Translations
Anagrams
- quene
Middle English
Noun
queen
- Alternative form of quene (“queen”)
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