• (RP, GA) IPA: /deɪm/

dame (plural dames)

1. (Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title#Noun|title equivalent to Sir for a female#Adjective|female knight#Noun|knight.

   Dame Edith Sitwell

2. (Britain) A matron at a school#Noun|school, especially Eton College.
3. (Britain, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female#Noun|female often play#Verb|played by a man#Noun|man in drag#Noun|drag.
4. (US, dated, informal, slightly, derogatory) A woman.
5. (archaic) A lady, a woman.
   • 1576, George Whetstone, “The Castle of Delight: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, Diuided into Foure Parts. [...], Imprinted at London: [By H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, OCLC 837515946 ↗; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, Diuided into Foure Parts. [...] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], OCLC 706027473 ↗, page 55 ↗:

     Now, thou, deare dame, that workſte theſe ſweete effectes in mee, / Vouchsafe my zeale, that onely ſeeke to ſerve and honour thee.

• See Thesaurus:woman

• dominate
• dominator
• dominatrix
• domine, dominie
• donna
• grande dame

• Portuguese: dama
• Russian: ле́ди

• Russian: да́мочка

• Portuguese: dama
• Russian: да́ма

dame (plural dames)

1. (British) The titular prefix given to a female knight