Madam

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A polite form of address for a woman or lady.

   “Mrs Grey wondered if the outfit she was trying on made her look fat. The sales assistant just said, “It suits you, madam”.”

2. isim The mistress of a household.
3. isim A conceited or quarrelsome girl.

   “Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam.”

4. isim A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.

   “After she grew too old to work as a prostitute, she became a madam.”

5. isim A hated or contemptuous woman; used as a general term of abuse
6. fiil To address as "madam".

   “Madam me no Madam, but learn to retrench your vvords; and ſay Mam; as yes Mam, and no Mam, as other Ladies VVomen do. Madam! 'tis a year in pronouncing.”

7. fiil To be a madam; to run (a brothel).

   “Margaret Long’s freudianized Louisville does not have the local color of the famous Lexington bordello madamed by the late Belle Breezing (in the process of being fictionized); […]”

8. isim Alternative letter-case form of madam.

   “And nowadays the Madam will blame the Worker’s Unions […] Very unnatural but the Mesdames take the girls for granted”

9. isim A polite form of address and title, abbreviated Mdm, used before a (usually middle-aged) adult or elderly woman's surname, full name or given name if she does not have a family name.