Beldam

Definitions: Beldam

Beldam

Noun

1. An ugly evil-looking old woman.

2. A woman of advanced age.

Date "beldam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Beldam An old woman; literally, a grandmother. The French also use bel age for old age. "Old men and beldames in the streets Do prophesy upon it dangerously." Shakespeare: King John, iv. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Beldam

Synonyms: beldame (n), crone (n), hag (n), witch (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Evil doer	Hag, hellhag, beldam, Jezebel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Beldam

Specialty definitions using "beldam": Lucus a non Lucendo. (references)

Etymologies containing "beldam": Belsire. (references)

"Beldam" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Beldam" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	86.67%	13	97,576
Noun (singular)	13.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "beldam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Shtrigë (beldame, cummer, gorgon, hag, hex, lamia, medicaster, medicine man, necromancer, night-hag, termagant, witch). (various references)

Bulgarian		старица (hag, old woman). (various references)

German		Ahnfrau (ancestress). (various references)

Hungarian		boszorka (beldame, scold). (various references)

Italian		Vecchiaccia (beldame, crone). (various references)

Manx		caillagh (crone, old woman, single woman; glaucous gull, witch). (various references)

Pig Latin		eldambay

Portuguese		Bruxa (hag, harridan, hex, sorceress, witch), Mulher Velha, Megera (Randy, shrew, shrewish, termagant, vixen, Xanthippe). (various references)

Russian		Старая Карга. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		babetina (beldame), starica (anile, beldame, gammer, old woman). (various references)

Spanish		Bruja (air plant, bitch, crone, floppers, hag, harridan, hex, lifeplant, night-hag, Randy, sorceress, witch, wizard), Hechicera (caldron, enchantress, sorceress). (various references)

Swedish		Satkäring (bitch). (various references)

Turkish		Kocakarı (beldame, crone, frump, gammer, hag, harridan, old woman), Þirret Kadın (Xanthippe), Acuze (beldame, grimalkin, hag, old woman, tabby). (various references)

Ukranian		чаклунка (enchantress, lamia, witch), Прабаба, �'ідьма, Стара Карга. (various references)

Vietnamese		mụ phù thuỷ gi� (beldame), mụ đ�"ng gia con mụ đanh đá (beldame). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "beldam": beldame, beldames, beldams. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beldam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balram, bedam, bedlamp, bedlem, bedlum, Beedham, Beldham, Beldon, beldray, belha, Belhaj, Belida, Bildad, Bilsdean, bodlean, Feldkamp. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "beldam" (pronounced 'Bel"dam'): Beldame, Commendam, Grandam, milldam, Quidam. (additional references)

Words ending with "eldame ": Beldame. (additional references)

Words rhyming with "beldam" (pronounced 'Bel"dame'): Beldame, Schooldame, Stepdame. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ambled, bedlam, blamed, lambed.
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-l-m"
	-1 letter: amble, baled, blade, blame, lamed, medal.
	-2 letters: abed, able, alme, bade, bald, bale, balm, bead, beam, bema, blae, blam, bled, dale, dame, deal, lade, lamb, lame, lead, mabe, made, male, mead, meal, meld.
	-3 letters: alb, ale, bad, bal, bam, bed, bel, dab, dal, dam, deb, del, eld, elm, lab, lad, lam, lea, led.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-l-m"
	+1 letter: bedlamp, bedlams, beldame, beldams, gambled, marbled, rambled, wambled.
	+2 letters: balsamed, becalmed, bedlamps, beldames, brambled, damnable, dimmable, embalmed, emblazed, flambeed, gamboled, gimbaled, imbalmed, imblazed, mandible, mendable, moldable, semibald, shambled, unblamed.
	+3 letters: admirable, ambulated, amendable, assembled, bedlamite, bemedaled, bromeliad, clambered, embattled, emendable, gambolled, gimballed, lambasted, mandibles, medicable, molybdate, scrambled, subdermal.
	+4 letters: admissible, bamboozled, beclamored, bedlamites, beglamored, bemedalled, biomedical, bipedalism, blasphemed, blastoderm, bromeliads, deformable, demandable, descramble, emblazoned, embrangled, formidable, hebdomadal, imbalanced, lumberyard, mailbombed, marbleised, marbleized, mislabeled, mislabored, modifiable, molybdates, mothballed, redeemable, remediable, sublimated, subsampled, timberland, umbrellaed.
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