dame

About 4.94 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.

   Dame Edith Sitwell

2. noun A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
3. noun In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
4. noun A woman.
5. noun A lady, a woman.
6. noun The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
7. noun A queen.
8. verb To make a dame.

Similar words

gentlewoman lady madam madame wench doll skirt chick bird baroness

Often followed by

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Word family

dames