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madame
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)
- 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
- madam
Declension
French
Etymology
ma +? dame From Old French ma dame (my lady).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.dam/
Noun
madame f (plural mesdames)
- 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?
- Si vous êtes libre, pourriez-vous aider madame, s'il vous plaît?
- madam, Mrs. or Ms.
- (in children's language, childish) Lady, woman.
- Dis merci à la madame.
- Say thank you to the lady.
- Dis merci à la madame.
- 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. [...]"
- 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. [...] »
- 2020, Laure Stéphan, « Ma Madame m’a dit qu’ils ne pouvaient plus me payer » : au Liban, le calvaire des domestiques éthiopiennes, Le Monde:
Synonyms
- dame, lady
- (title, form of address): (abbreviations) Mme, 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
- 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)
- 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)
- madam (polite term of address to a woman)
- madam (mistress of a household)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French madame.
Noun
madame f (plural madames)
- madam (polite term of address to a woman)
- madam (mistress of a household)
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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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