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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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woman
English
Etymology
From Middle English woman, from earlier wimman, wifman. The Middle English forms are from Old English wiman, wimman, from w?fmann m (“woman; female servant”, literally “female person”), a compound of w?f (“woman”, whence English wife) +? mann (“person”, whence English man). For details on the pronunciation and spelling history, see the usage notes below.
Cognate with Scots woman, weman. Compare Saterland Frisian Wieuwmoanske (“female person; female human”). Similar constructions can be found in West Frisian frommes (“woman, girl”) (from frou and minske, literally "woman human").
A few alternative spellings (see below) respell the term so as not to contain man.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?w?m?n/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?w?m?n/
- Hyphenation: wom?an
- Rhymes: -?m?n
- Homophone: women (some dialects, common in New Zealand and South Africa)
Noun
woman (plural women)
- An adult female human.
- 2012, Kate Welsh, Substitute Daddy (?ISBN):
- "There is nothing wrong with Melissa or the way she was raised. She is a sweet, kind, intelligent woman with a generous heart and more love for her child than you and Mother ever showed for either of your children."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:woman.
- 2012, Kate Welsh, Substitute Daddy (?ISBN):
- (collective) All female humans collectively; womankind.
- 1972, Helen Reddy, "I Am Woman," first line:
- I am Woman, hear me roar / In numbers too big to ignore
- 1997, Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard, page 42:
- For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?
- 2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109:
- Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.
- 1972, Helen Reddy, "I Am Woman," first line:
- A female person, usually an adult; a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.
- 2003, Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Psychology Press (?ISBN), page 37:
- To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.
- 2007, Clifford B. Bowyer, The Siege of Zoldex, Silver Leaf Books, LLC (?ISBN), page 307:
- One of the elves, a woman with long auburn hair, was garbed identically to the two dwarves.
- 2008, Christopher Paolini, Brisingr: Or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular - Inheritance Book Three (?ISBN), page 549:
- Clearing a space between the tables, the men tested their prowess against one another with feats of wrestling and archery and bouts with quarterstaves. Two of the elves, a man and a woman, demonstrated their skill with swordplay— […]
- 2014, Oisin McGann, Kings of the Realm: Cruel Salvation, Penguin UK (?ISBN):
- There was a pair of burly dwarves – a woman and a man – bearing the markings of the formidable Thane Guards.
- 2003, Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Psychology Press (?ISBN), page 37:
- A wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).
- 1914, D. H. Lawrence, Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":
- And then, when he lies with his woman, the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.
- 1914, D. H. Lawrence, Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":
- A female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a compound.)
- 2004, Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount, page 70:
- Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman. I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.
- 2004, Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount, page 70:
- A female attendant or servant.
- c. 1564–1616, William Shakespeare:
- By her woman I sent your message.
- c. 1564–1616, William Shakespeare:
Usage notes
The current pronunciation of the first vowel of the singular began to appear in western England in the 13th century under the rounding influence of the w, though the older pronunciation with /i/ (? modern /?/) remained in use into the 15th century. Although the vowel of the plural was sometimes also altered to /u/ (? modern /?/) beginning in the 14th century, the pronunciation with /?/ ultimately won out there, possibly under the influence of pairs like foot-feet. However, many speakers (especially of New Zealand English or South African English) have either retained or reinnovated the pronunciation of the plural with /?/. The modern spelling women for the plural is due to influence of the singular; it is attested from the 15th century.
For a time in the 16th and 17th centuries, the pronunciation of the singular sometimes drifted even further back towards /u?/ or /??~o?/ (? modern /o?~??/) and the plural sometimes drifted even further forward towards /i?/, leading to comparisons of the words to "woe man" or "we men".)
Alternative forms
- (feminist spellings; very rare:) (singular:) womxn, womyn, (plural:) womxn, womyn, wymyn
- (eye dialect, sometimes also used as feminist spellings:) (singular:) womin, wommon (also obsolete), womon (plural:) wimin, wimmin, wimmen, wymmyn
- (obsolete, 17th c.) weoman
- (obsolete) whoman
- (plural, informal or obsolete) wimen
- (plural, nonstandard, proscribed) womans
- (plural, nonstandard, African-American Vernacular) womens
Synonyms
- lady; female; see more at Thesaurus:woman
Hypernyms
- man (broad sense), human
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
- (gender): man
- (age): girl
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: uman
- Aukan: uman
- Krio: uman
- Sranan Tongo: uma; oema (superseded)
- Torres Strait Creole: oman
- ? Japanese: ???? (?man)
- ? Korean: ?? (umeon)
- ? Volapük: vom
Translations
See woman/translations § Noun.
References
- woman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Woman (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
woman (third-person singular simple present womans, present participle womaning, simple past and past participle womaned)
- To staff with female labor.
- 2010, Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale, page 77
- The information desk is now manned (womaned) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”
- 2010, Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale, page 77
- (transitive) To make effeminate or womanish.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, III. ii. 50:
- I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.
- 1598, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, III. ii. 50:
- (transitive) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, III. iv. 191:
- And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, III. iv. 191:
- (transitive) To call (a person) "woman" in a disrespectful fashion.
See also
References
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?voman]
Noun
woman m
- obsolete form of oman (“elecampane”), obsolete spelling of voman (“elecampane”)
Declension
Middle English
Noun
woman (plural women)
- Alternative form of womman
Upper Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *oman?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?u?oman]
Noun
woman m
- inula, elecampane (Inula spp., especially Inula helenium)
Declension
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