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dame

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"Female title"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /deɪm/Part of speech nounSorted ademStarts with DEnds with E2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. informal terms for a (young) woman

Word origin

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”). Doublet of domina and donna.

Used in a sentence

  • Dame Edith Sitwell
  • I can see that would be the kind of a chap that the dames would stand for everlastingly.
  • There is nothin' like a dame / Nothin' in the world. / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a dame.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Female title4 letters
02Title for a woman4 letters

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