dame.
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
Meaning & usage
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
Dame Edith Sitwell
A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
A woman.
A lady, a woman.
The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
A queen.
Where this word comes from
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.
To make a dame.
Where this word comes from
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.
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