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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

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dame Synonyms

dame

n.

baroness, aristocrat, peeress, dowager; see lady 2, 3, matron 2.


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dame Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: Two Queens of Hollywood become dames from the British Queen at Buckingham Palace.

Noun used with modifier

  • grande: She holds her skirt with her hand as she dances, with stately precision, after the manner of the grandes dames.

Adjective modifier

  • grande: The world's best-known hotels put to the test December 05, 2004 - Times Online There is nothing like a grande dame.

Modifies a noun

  • school: By the time of Haddon's death in April 1845 the school had degenerated to a dame school.

Noun used with modifier

  • notre: Party neither side's the trailer hitch cover notre dame i want.

Preposition: of

  • hotel: Great views, and a strong possibility of rubbing shoulders with celebrities staying in this grand dame of a hotel.
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dame quotes

Whare sits our sulky sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.

-Burns, Robert

I saw pale kings, and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; Who cry'dö'La belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!'

-Keats,John

He played an ancient ditty, long since mute, In Provence called,'La belle dame sans mercy'.

-Keats,John

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