Dame : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Dame	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dame n informal terms for a (young) woman [syn: dame, doll, wench, skirt, chick, bird] a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady" Synonym(s): dame, madam, ma'am, lady, gentlewoman
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dame \Dame\ (d[amac]m), n. [F. dame, LL. domna, fr. L. domina mistress, lady, fem. of dominus master, ruler, lord; akin to domare to tame, subdue. See {Tame}, and cf. {Dam} a mother, {Dan}, {Danger}, {Dungeon}, {Dominie}, {Don}, n., {Duenna}.] 1. A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady. Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. --Shak. 2. The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school. In the dame's classes at the village school. --Emerson. 3. A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman. 4. A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds. [Obs.] --Chaucer.