madame
French
noun
Definitions
- a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address.
- madam, Mrs. or Ms.
- (in children's language) Lady, woman.
- the female employer of a domestic servant
Etymology
Compound from French ma + French dame (lady, king doubled piece in checkers).
Origin
French
dame
Gloss
lady, king doubled piece in checkers
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
婦
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bemadam English
- croque-madame English
- dame English
- madam English
- madame English
- madamhood English
- madamish English
- madamji English
- domina Latin
- Dame German
- dama Italian
- mia Italian
- croque-madame French
- croquer French
- dame French
- damier French
- ma French
- mademoiselle French
- дама Russian
- мадам Russian
- dama Spanish, Castilian
- madame Spanish, Castilian
- dama Portuguese
- madame Portuguese
- ママ Japanese
- ママチャリ Japanese
- dama Polish
- dame Danish
- dame Old French
- ma Old French
- madame Old French
- -a Esperanto
- dama Catalan, Valencian
- मैडम Hindi
- dama Galician
- damă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mamasang Cebuano
- madam Turkish
- дама Bulgarian
- madanm Haitian, Haitian Creole
- matant Mauritian Creole