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Dame
/deɪm/
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
📖 Definitions of "Dame"
noun
- 1
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
"Dame Edith Sitwell"
- 2
A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
- 3
In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
- 4
(slightly derogatory) A woman.
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