dame🔊

(Britain) ''Usually capitalized as'' (Dame): a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.

(Britain) A matron at a school, especially {{w|Eton College}}.

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

(derogatory) A woman.

(archaic) A lady, a woman.

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

(slang) A queen.

To make a dame.