dame

IPA: dˈeɪm

(Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
(Britain) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
(Britain, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
(US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman.
(archaic) A lady, a woman.
(chess, slang) A queen.
(Britain) The titular prefix given to a female knight

Examples of "dame" in Sentences

My grand-dame is sharp of hearing and light of slumber.
Chess-players may have borrowed the word dame from the game of draughts.
In the animal wing a strange-looking dame is down at the end, talking to a sleepy tiger.
Wrongly am I called dame; but I know well that he who calls me dame knows not that I am a maid.
Moved out of herself by the nearness of death, the titled dame had reverted to childish days, speaking her thoughts aloud.
He accepted this alms, and was rejoiced that he was faithful to the last to poverty, which he called his dame and his mistress; then raising his hands to heaven, he gave glory to our Lord Jesus
From the reign of Robert, the son of Hugh Capet, the barons of Courtenay are conspicuous among the immediate vassals of the crown; and Joscelin, the grandson of Atho and a noble dame, is enrolled among the heroes of the first crusade.
The yeoman-keeper, therefore, our friend Joceline, had constructed, for his own accommodation, and that of the old woman he called his dame, a wattled hut, such as his own labour, with that of a neighbour or two, had erected in the course of a few days.
He accepted this alms, and was rejoiced that he was faithful to the last to poverty, which he called his dame and his mistress; then raising his hands to heaven, he gave glory to our Lord Jesus Christ, that, being disengaged and free from everything, he was about to go to Him.