dame
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
Noun 4 meanings
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
“Dame Edith Sitwell”
A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
A woman.
Verb 1 meaning
To make a dame.
Etymology
From Middle English dame, dam (“noble lady”), from Old French dame (“lady; term of address for a woman; the queen in card games and chess”), from Latin domina (“mistress of the house”), feminine form of dominus (“lord, master, ruler; owner of a residence”), or from Latin domus (“home, house”).
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DAME at a glance
DAME has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (D 2 + A 1 + M 3 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,436 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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