dame

English

/deɪm/

noun
Definitions
  • (Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
  • (Britain) A matron at a school, especially .
  • (Britain) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
  • (US) A woman.
  • (archaic) A lady, a woman.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English dame derived from Old French dame (term of address for a woman, the queen in card games and chess, lady, woman) derived from Latin domina (mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household) derived from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (tame, domesticate, dominate) derived from Latin domus (house, building, home) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (build, house).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dem-

Gloss

build, house

Concept
Semantic Field

Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

建

Emoji
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