different between pram vs dame

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of perambulator

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pr?m, IPA^(key): /p?æm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

pram (plural prams)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A small vehicle, usually covered, in which a newborn baby is pushed around in a lying position; a perambulator.
   • 1975, Margaret Drabble, The Realms of Gold, 1977, page 127,

     Janet Bird née Ollerenshaw was pushing her pram along Tockley High Street.

   • 2006, Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale, unnumbered page,

     For a start the pram was heavier than it appeared, and also they were pulling it along very uneven ground. The edge of the field was slightly banked which tilted the pram at an angle.

   • 2012, Ramsey Campbell, Dark Companions, page 233,

     Stepping over her, he unbuttoned the pram?s apron and pulled it back.

     At first he couldn?t make out what the pram contained. He had to crane himself over, holding his body back from the obscuring light. The pram was full of groceries—cabbage, sprouts, potatoes.

Synonyms

• (US) baby carriage

Coordinate terms

• (vehicle in which an infant or toddler is pushed in sitting position): baby buggy, pushchair, pusher, stroller

Translations

Etymology 2

From Dutch praam (“a flat-bottomed boat”), from Middle Dutch praem, from Middle Low German pr?m, from Old Czech *prám, from Proto-Slavic *porm?. Doublet of farm.

Alternative forms

• praam, prahm

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: präm, IPA^(key): /p???m/
• Rhymes: -??m

Noun

pram (plural prams)

1. (nautical, historical) A flat-bottomed barge used on shallow shores to convey cargo to and from ships that cannot enter the harbour.
2. (nautical, historical) A similar barge used as platform for cannons in shallow waters which seagoing warships cannot enter.
3. A type of dinghy with a flat bow.
   • 1979 August, F. M. Paulson, Car-topable Craft, Field & Stream, page 50,

     Although the pram, like the johnboat, has a squared-off bow as well as stern, the bow lines on the pram will be narrower than those encountered on a johnboat.

   • 1994, Dave Hughes, Fly Fishing Basics, unnumbered page,

     Nothing can beat the simple pleasure of paddling a pram around on a foggy dawn, probing pad flats, stumps and fallen logs for lurking bass.

Translations

Anagrams

• MRAP, parm, ramp

Dutch

Etymology

From pramen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?m/
• Hyphenation: pram
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

pram m (plural prammen, diminutive prammetje n)

1. (colloquial, vulgar) A boob, a tit.

   Synonyms: borst, jetser, mem, tiet

2. (obsolete) A breast of a breastfeeding woman or a teat of a suckling female.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse prámr, from Middle Low German pr?m, from Old Czech *prám, from Proto-Slavic *porm?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr?m?/

Noun

pram m (definite singular prammen, indefinite plural prammar, definite plural prammane)

1. a rowboat without a keel, a pram
2. a barge

References

• “pram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *porm?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prâm/
• Hyphenation: pram

Noun

pr?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (historical, seafaring) ferry

Declension

Etymology 2

From pr?m?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prâ?m/

Noun

pr?m m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. lock, tuft

Declension

References

• “pram” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “pram” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

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)

1. (Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
2. (Britain) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
3. (Britain, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
4. (US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman.
5. (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)

1. lady
2. (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)

1. (polite) lady, woman (adult female)
2. lady (adult female with a cultivated appearance)
3. (informal) girlfriend
4. (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)

1. lady
   1. noblewoman
   2. Polite term or title of address for any (adult or adolescent) woman.
2. (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)

1. A lady
2. A polite form of address for a woman.
3. (chess) queen
4. (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

• d^e, 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

1. plural of dama

Japanese

Romanization

dame

1. 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)

1. lady (high-ranking or noble woman):
   1. abbess (governor of a nunnery)
   2. (rare) A female anchorite (with servants)
2. A housewife (mistress of a family)
3. A mother (of humans, animals, or plants)
4. A term of address for a noble lady.
5. 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

1. Alternative form of dam (“dam”)

Etymology 3

Verb

dame

1. 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)

1. a lady, woman
2. (romantic relationship) a girlfriend
3. (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)

1. a lady, woman
2. (romantic relationship) a girlfriend
3. (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)

1. 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
• Norman: dame
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: dame
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: dame
• Picard: danme

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dame]

Noun

dame f

1. indefinite plural of dam?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of dam?

Spanish

Verb

dame

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar, da and the pronoun me: give me!