dame

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n. 夫人

发音

US /deɪm/
AU
UK /deɪm/

词形变化

dames 复数 dames damed dames 三单 daming 现在分词 damed 过去式 damed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    Dame Edith Sitwell

  2. 2.

    A matron at a school, especially Eton College.

  3. 3.

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

    艺术
  4. 4.

    A woman.

    美国 过时 非正式
  5. 5.

    A lady, a woman.

    古体
  6. 6.

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

  7. 7.

    A queen.

    俚语 游戏
v.
  1. 1.

    To make a dame.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 9

lady madam bird doll chick skirt wench gentlewoman ma'am

上位词 5

girl woman miss missy young lady

下位词 1

grande dame

相关短语

dame school n. 由老妇人主办的家庭小学 dame schools dame de compagnie Grande Dame Guignol Notre Dame Bay belle dame sans merci Notre Dame 巴黎圣母院 grande dame 贵妇人 Nôtre Dame School Sister of Notre Dame

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary