Dame

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “Dame Edith Sitwell”

2. isim A matron at a school, especially Eton College.

   “As he [Fréderic Guyaz] worked for Topham [Beauclerk] while he was at Eton, it is likely that Topham was a day-boarder there, living at home in Windsor. His Eton "dame" was Mrs. Bland; day-boarders were allocated to a dame at whose house they took their meals.”

3. isim In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
4. isim A woman.

   “I can see that would be the kind of a chap that the dames would stand for everlastingly.”

5. isim A lady, a woman.

   “Now, thou, deare dame, that workſte theſe ſweete effectes in mee, / Vouchsafe my zeale, that onely ſeeke to ſerve and honour thee.”

6. isim The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
7. isim A queen.
8. fiil To make a dame.

   “Jonathan’s first edition of Calais was signed by Dame Agatha [Christie]. Not as Dame Agatha, just plain Agatha. She got Damed later.”

9. isim The titular prefix given to a female knight