Beldame

Definitions: Beldame

Beldame

Noun

1. An ugly evil-looking old woman.

2. A woman of advanced age.

Date "beldame" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Synonyms: Beldame

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

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Violence	Berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast; fire eater; (blusterer).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The beldame remarked with dismay, that it was a bank bill for a thousand francs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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

Arabic		‏عجوز شمطاء (crone, hag). (various references)

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

Italian		vecchiaccia (Beldam, crone), megera (harridan, jezebel, shrew, termagant, virago, vixen, Xanthippe). (various references)

Manx		caillagh (phishagagh). (various references)

Pig Latin		eldamebay

Russian		старая карга (crone, harridan). (various references)

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

Swedish		häxa (hag, night-hag, sorceress, whitch, witch). (various references)

Turkish		kocakarı (Beldam, crone, frump, gammer, hag, harridan, old woman), şirret kadın (fury, hellcat, shrew, virago), acuze (Beldam, grimalkin, hag, old woman, tabby). (various references)

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

Derivations
	Words beginning with "beldame": beldames. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Beldame" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badami, belame, belane, Beldham, Beljame, eudamex, feldene. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l-m"
	-1 letter: ambled, beadle, beamed, bedlam, beldam, blamed, lambed.
	-2 letters: abele, adeem, amble, baled, bedel, blade, blame, bleed, edema, embed, lamed, medal.
	-3 letters: abed, able, alee, alme, bade, bald, bale, balm, bead, beam, bema, blae, blam, bled, dale, dame, deal, deem, dele, deme, lade, lamb, lame, lead, mabe, made, male, mead, meal, meed, meld.
	-4 letters: alb.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l-m"
	+1 letter: becalmed, beldames, embalmed, emblazed, flambeed, mendable.
	+2 letters: amendable, assembled, bedlamite, bemedaled, clambered, embattled, emendable, medicable.
	+3 letters: beclamored, bedlamites, beglamored, bemedalled, blasphemed, deformable, demandable, descramble, emblazoned, embrangled, marbleised, marbleized, mislabeled, redeemable, remediable, umbrellaed.
	+4 letters: beglamoured, commendable, condemnable, demountable, denumerable, denumerably, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, disablement, disassemble, immedicable, lamebrained, medicinable, metabolized, mislabelled, reassembled, unassembled.
	+5 letters: battlemented, bedazzlement, damnableness, decomposable, demonstrable, descramblers, determinable, determinably, disablements, disassembled, disassembles, documentable, emblematized, imponderable, irredeemable, irredeemably, irremediable, irremediably, misassembled, perambulated, preassembled, sedimentable, subepidermal, unredeemable.
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