dame
noun
2.
Origin
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.
Phrases
- belle dame sans merci
- dame de compagnie
- dame school
- grande dame
Related words
Word family
- Dame's violet
- Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
- Dame Alice Ellen Terry
- Dame Alicia Markova
- Dame Barbara Hepworth
- Dame Daphne du Maurier
- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- Dame Ellen Terry
- Dame Jean Iris Murdoch
- Dame Joan Sutherland
- Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa
- Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
- Dame Margot Fonteyn
- Dame Muriel Spark
- Dame Myra Hess
Narrower terms
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