Dame

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.3 Synonyms 1.4 Related Terms 2 Japanese 2.1 Romaji 3 Norwegian 3.1 Noun 4 Spanish 4.1 Verb

English

Etymology

Via Norman French from Latin dama, woman

Noun

dame (plural: dames)

1. (archaic) lady, woman
2. (British) the equivalent title to Sir for a female knight

   Dame Edith Sitwell

3. (colloquial) slightly derogatory way of referring to a woman

   "There ain't nothin' like a dame!" (South Pacific)

Synonyms

• see wikiSaurus:woman

Related Terms

• knight
• madam
• madame
• sir

Japanese

Romaji

dame (だめ)

1. 駄目: no good; useless; hopeless

Norwegian

Noun

Dame c. (definite singular dama/damen; indefinite plural damer; definite plural damene)

1. lady, woman

Spanish

Verb

dame!

1. give me!

   dame is the second-person familiar imperative of dar, "to give", with the suffixed first-person singular indirect object pronoun me, "me".

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