Dame

Quick meaning: Dame is a noun meaning (British) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.

Meaning

(British) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.

More Meanings

1. (British) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
2. (British, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
3. (US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman.
4. The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
5. (chess, slang) A queen.
6. To make a dame.
7. (archaic) A lady, a woman.

Example Sentences

Dame Edith Sitwell

I can see that would be the kind of a chap that the dames would stand for everlastingly.

There is nothin' like a dame / Nothin' in the world. / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a dame.

The cover of the modern cd, issued by EMI Classics with Dame Janet Baker and Sir John Barbirolli in 1965, carries a portrait of Dame Janet wearing a long coral necklace in reference to the song 'Where the Corals lie' to words by Richard Garnett (1835–1906).

Word Forms

• dames
• daming
• damed

Synonyms for dame

Depending on context, synonyms include woman, wench, skirt, lady, doll, madam.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gentlewoman, lady, madam, madame, wench, doll.

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