dame

dame

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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”), or from Latin domus (“home, house”). Doublet of domina and donna.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /deɪm/
  • Rhymes: -eɪm

Noun

dame (plural dames)

  1. (British) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
  2. (British) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
  3. (British, 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.
  6. The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
  7. (chess, slang) A queen.

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:woman

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

  • knight
  • madam
  • madame
  • sir

Verb

dame (third-person singular simple present dames, present participle daming, simple past and past participle damed)

  1. To make a dame.

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

See also

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French dame (“lady”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /daːmə/, [ˈd̥æːmə]

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

Declension

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): /ˈdaː.mə/
  • Hyphenation: da‧me
  • Rhymes: -aːmə

Noun

dame f (plural dames, diminutive dametje n)

  1. lady
    1. noblewoman
      Synonym: edelvrouw
    2. Polite term or title of address for any (adult or adolescent) woman.
      Synonyms: mevrouw, madam
  2. (chess, card games) queen
    Synonym: koningin

Usage notes

  • The nonstandard plural damesch is occasionally encountered in archaising contexts, particularly in sororities. This spelling, however, is an unetymological faux-archaism, as the plural marker -s was historically never spelled -sch.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: dame

See also

Anagrams

  • adem, made

French

Etymology

Inherited 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. lady
  2. (chess, card games) queen
  3. (in the plural) draughts (UK), checkers (US)

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

Descendants

  • → Catalan: dama
  • → Danish: dame
  • → Friulian: dame
  • → Galician: dama
  • → German: Dame
  • → Persian: دام (dâm)
  • → Italian: dama
    • → Ottoman Turkish: دامه (dama)
      • Turkish: dama
      • → Armenian: տամա (tama)
  • → Polish: dama
  • → Portuguese: dama
  • → Romanian: damă
  • → Spanish: dama

Interjection

dame

  1. (dated) why, indeed

See also

Further reading

  • “dame”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

dame f

  1. plural of dama

Anagrams

  • Meda, meda

Japanese

Romanization

dame

  1. Rōmaji transcription of だめ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ダメ

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French dame, from Latin domina.

Alternative forms

  • damme, dam

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdaːm(ə)/, /ˈdam(ə)/

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

  • “dāme, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

dame

  1. Alternative form of dam (“dam”)

Etymology 3

Noun

dame

  1. Alternative form of damey

Etymology 4

Noun

dame

  1. (when preceding labials) Alternative form of dan

Etymology 5

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): /ˈdamə/
  • Rhymes: -amə

Noun

dame oblique singular, f (oblique plural dames, nominative singular dame, nominative plural dames)

  1. lady; woman

Usage notes

  • Dame was the usual term referring to women of high social status, while fame was used of such women chiefly in the sense of “wife”.

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
      • → Danish: dame
      • → Friulian: dame
      • → Galician: dama
      • → German: Dame
      • → Persian: دام (dâm)
      • → Italian: dama
        • → Ottoman Turkish: دامه (dama)
          • Turkish: dama
          • → Armenian: տամա (tama)
      • → Polish: dama
      • → Portuguese: dama
      • → Romanian: damă
      • → Spanish: dama
    • → Middle Dutch: dame
      • Dutch: dame
        • Afrikaans: dame
  • Norman: dame
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: dame
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: dame
  • Picard: danme

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdame]

Noun

dame f

  1. inflection of damă:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdame/ [ˈd̪a.me]
  • Rhymes: -ame
  • Syllabification: da‧me

Verb

dame

  1. inflection of dar:
    1. second-person singular imperative combined with me
    2. second-person singular voseo imperative combined with me

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