Dame

Noun

Definitions

1.NounUsually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.

"Dame Edith Sitwell"

2.NounA matron at a school, especially Eton College.

3.NounIn traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.

4.NounA woman.

5.NounA lady, a woman.

6.NounThe hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.

7.NounA queen.

8.VerbTo make a dame.

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