Dame vs Madam - What's the difference?
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(British) The .
(dated, informal, slightly, derogatory, US) A woman.
* 1949 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), "(There is Nothing Like a Dame)",
A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
(archaic) , woman.
The mistress of a household.
(colloquial) A conceited or quarrelsome girl.
(slang) A woman who runs a brothel.
Dame is a synonym of madam.
As nouns the difference between dame and madam
is that dame is (british) the while madam is a polite form of address for a woman or lady.dame
English
Noun
(en noun)- Dame Edith Sitwell
- There ain't nothin' like a dame'! / Nothin' in the world! / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a ' dame !
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* * * * Regional English ----madam
English
Noun
(wikipedia madam) (en-noun)- ''Mrs Grey wondered if the outfit she was trying on made her look fat. The sales assistant just said, “It suits you, madam ”.
- ''Later, Mrs Grey was sitting in her favourite tea shop. “Would madam like the usual cream cakes and patisserie with her tea?” the waitress asked.
- ''Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam .
- After she grew too old to work as a prostitute, she became a madam .