dame
IPA: dˈeɪm
noun
- (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
verb
- To make a dame.
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Examples of "dame" in Sentences
- She was the fairy and he was the dame.
- He is the bellringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
- The logo represents that of the Notre Dame symbol.
- He is the opposite of Dame Edna, uncouth and coarse.
- He attended the University of Notre Dame in the 1960s.
- My grand-dame is sharp of hearing and light of slumber.
- Students enrolled in Finis produce the Notre Dame yearbook.
- She was the wife of the village curate and ran a dame school.
- The fight song is to the tune of the Notre Dame Victory March.
- He swam in college in the USA for the University of Notre Dame.
- Chess-players may have borrowed the word dame from the game of draughts.
- He plays the part of a dame in the amateur pantomime in his local village.
- 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.