madame

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mad=ame

CIDE DICTIONARY

madame, n. [F., fr. ma my (L. mea) + dame dame. See Dame, and cf. Madonna.].

 My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

madame, n.
1 (pl. Mesdames) a title or form of address used of or to a French-speaking woman, corresponding to Mrs or madam.
2 (madame) = MADAM 1.

Etymology

F (as MADAM)

THESAURUS

madame

Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, dame, dona, donna, lady, madam, mademoiselle, mem-sahib, mesdames, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw

ROGET THESAURUS

madame

Woman

N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.