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dame (dām)

noun

  1. Archaic a title given to a woman in authority or the mistress of a household: now only in personifications Dame Care
  2. an elderly or matronly woman
  3. in Great Britain
    1. the legal title of the wife of a knight or baronet
    2. the title of a woman who has received an order of knighthood: used always with the given name
  4. Slang a woman or girl

Etymology: ME < OFr < L domina, lady, fem. of dominus, a lord: see dominate

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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