different between madame vs bawd

English

Alternative forms

• Madame

Etymology

Borrowed from French madame, from Old French ma dame (“my lady”). Doublet of madam and Madonna.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??d??m/, /?mæ.d?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m??dæm/, /m??d?m/, /mæ?dæm/, /mæ?d?m/, /?mæ.d?m/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

madame (plural madames or mesdames)

1. Alternative form of madam

Derived terms

• Madame Bishop

Related terms

• croque-madame
• grande madame
• Madame Berthe's mouse lemur
• Madame Tussaud's

Anagrams

• ma'amed

Finnish

Noun

madame

1. madam

Declension

French

Etymology

ma +? dame From Old French ma dame (my lady).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.dam/

Noun

madame f (plural mesdames)

1. a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address.

   Si vous êtes libre, pourriez-vous aider madame, s'il vous plaît?

   If you're free, could you help this lady, please?

2. madam, Mrs. or Ms.
3. (in children's language, childish) Lady, woman.

   Dis merci à la madame.

   Say thank you to the lady.

4. the female employer of a domestic servant
   • 2020, Laure Stéphan, « Ma Madame m’a dit qu’ils ne pouvaient plus me payer » : au Liban, le calvaire des domestiques éthiopiennes, Le Monde:

     Mazaa, 23 ans, ancienne nourrice et femme de ménage, croix autour du cou, cache son visage. « Ma Madame (employeuse) m’a dit qu’ils ne pouvaient plus me payer. [...] »

     Mazaa, 23 years old, former nanny and housekeeper, a cross around her neck, hides her face. "My madame (employer) told me they couldn't pay me anymore. [...]"

Synonyms

• dame, lady
• (title, form of address): (abbreviations) M^me, Mme.

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• mademoiselle
• monsieur

Descendants

• ? Russian: ?????? (madám)

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

madame f

1. plural of madama

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ma dame, madam, madaum, maydame, madde dame

Etymology

From Old French madame; compare dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?da?m(?)/, /ma?dam(?)/, /ma?-/

Noun

madame (plural madames)

1. madam (polite term of address or (less often) title for a noble lady)

Descendants

• English: madam; ma'am
• Scots: madam

References

• “ma-dam(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• madama

Etymology

Borrowed from French madame.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ami

Noun

madame f (plural madames)

1. madam (polite term of address to a woman)
2. madam (mistress of a household)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French madame.

Noun

madame f (plural madames)

1. madam (polite term of address to a woman)
2. madam (mistress of a household)

English

Alternative forms

• baud
• baude

Etymology

From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (US) enPR: bôd, IPA^(key): /b?d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

bawd (plural bawds)

1. (now archaic or historical) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame.
   • 1717, Ned Ward, British Wonders:

     As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds, and so assist their Neighbours.

   • 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin 2013, p. 76:

     Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law.

2. A lewd person.

Derived terms

• bawdship

Adjective

bawd (comparative more bawd, superlative most bawd)

1. (obsolete) Joyous; riotously gay.

Verb

bawd (third-person singular simple present bawds, present participle bawding, simple past and past participle bawded)

1. (archaic) To procure women for lewd purposes.

Anagrams

• BWAD, dawb

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh mawd < Proto-Celtic *m?-to- < Proto-Indo-European *m?-.Compare Breton meud and Cornish meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bau?d/

Noun

bawd m (plural bodiau)

1. thumb
2. big toe
3. (of a crab or lobster) claw
4. hoof
5. (in slate quarrying) a flaw or crack in the slate
6. a bar projecting from rock face to which ropes are attached
7. (of a railway or tramway) points, turnouts

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