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Definitions: Madam |
MadamNoun1. A woman of refinement. 2. A woman who runs a house of prostitution. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "madam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Madam \Mad"am\, noun; plural Madams, or Mesdames. [See Madame.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | MADAM. A kept madam; a kept mistress. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MADAM | English | Moderately advanced data management | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MadamSynonyms: brothel keeper (n), dame (n), gentlewoman (n), lady (n), ma'am (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Woman | Dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs. lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer; Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife. (marriage); matronage, matronhood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Madam |
| English words defined with "madam": Doa ♦ epanorthosis ♦ inflexibly, It seems ♦ Madams, Mesdames, Miscellany madam ♦ Seora ♦ To cry you mercy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "madam": BROWN MADAM ♦ Clelie ♦ GOOD ♦ Madam Chair, MADAM RAN, MISS BROWN ♦ satiety ♦ table, TANTRUMS ♦ Wine ♦ Yoke. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Madam" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (ma'am), German (lady, madam), Haitian Creole (Ma'am), Pidgin English (madam), Romanian (madam), Serbo-Croatian (ma'am, madame), Turkish (ma'am, madam, Madame), Wolof (Mrs). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am afraid, madam, my days are sacrosanct. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Everyone has somebody that they want to put out of the way. Oh now, surely Madam, you're not going to tell me that there hasn't been a time that you didn't want to dispose of someone. (Strangers on a Train; writing credit: Raymond Chandler; Whitfield Cook) Brace yourself, madam, for an all-out bidding war! But this time, advantage Varnsen! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Your body madam was a desert that duty forced me to wander in alone. (Becket; writing credit: Edward Anhalt; Jean Anouilh) Are you going to bed? Sit down, Madam, I'll help you up! (90. Geburtstag oder Dinner for One, Der; writing credit: Guido Castaldo; Nico Rienzi) | |
Lyrics | Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book? ("Paperback Writer (Lennon/McCartney)"; performing artist: The Beatles) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 54 byeongaui madam (1972) Make Out Madam (1970) Madam! Mit mir nicht (1969) The Madam (1969) Anemone Madam (1968) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alfred Jarry | You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? |
Charlotte Bronte | Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. |
Pierre De Beaumarchais | Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. |
Samuel Johnson | Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. |
| I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. | |
Sydney Smith | Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. |
William Ernest Henley | Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Madam Hester would have winced at that, I warrant me. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Madam, his Majesty doth can for you, And for your Grace, and you, my gracious lords. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TABLE D':HOTE:, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility. Old Paunchinello, freshly wed, Took Madam P. to table, And there deliriously fed As fast as he was able. "I dote upon good grub," he cried, Intent upon its throatage. "Ah, yes," said the neglected bride, "You're in your table d'hotage." Associated Poets |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | On Meet the Press, Madam Albright pretty much admitted that the Clinton people blew it by not taking Sudan's offer to turn over bin Laden to the United States. |
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| "Madam" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.25% of the time. "Madam" is used about 799 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 (singular) | 69.25% | 553 | 11,271 |
| Noun (proper) | 30.75% | 246 | 19,009 |
| Total | 100.00% | 799 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "madam": dear madam ♦ miscellany madam. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "madam": troll-madam. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
madam | 145 |
madam alexander doll | 69 |
madam tussauds | 68 |
madam butterfly | 46 |
madam cj walker | 34 |
madam c.j walker | 33 |
madam alexander | 27 |
madam x | 22 |
curie madam | 16 |
dear sir or madam | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "madam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | Mevrou (lady, Mrs.), Mev. (lady, Mrs.), dame (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Albanian | zonjë (able, Dame, Dona, gentlewoman, hostess, housekeeper, lady, ladyship, ma'am, Madame, milady, missis, mistress, mrs.), padrone (ma'am, Madame). (various references) | |
Arabic | سيدتي (ma'am, madame), سيدة (dame, lady, ma'am, madonna, mistress, sister), صاحبة ماخور (bawd), انسة (madame, sister). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съдържателка на публичен дом, госпожо, нахакана жена, мадам (ma'am). (various references) | |
Catalan | senyora (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Chinese | 夫人 (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Czech | milostivá paní (ladyship), sleèno (miss), paní (lady, Mademoiselle, mistress, mrs, Mrs., ms, woman). (various references) | |
Danish | frue (lady, Mrs.), fru (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Dutch | mevrouw (lady, ma'am, Mistress, Mrs.), dame (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sinjorino (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Faeroese | frúgv (lady, Miss, Mrs., spinster, unmarried woman), frúa (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Finnish | rouva (married woman, Mrs., wife). (various references) | |
French | madame (ma'am, Madame). (various references) | |
Frisian | mefrou (lady, Mrs.), frou (lady, Mrs., wife, woman). (various references) | |
German | gnädige frau (ma'am, milady), Frau (broad, female, femme, lady, mate, missus, Mistress, mrs, mrs., Ms, ms., signora, wife, woman), Dame (checkers, companion, dame, draughts, king, lady, lady friend, queen, woman). (various references) | |
Greek | κυρία (gentlewoman, girder, lady, milady, missis, mistress, mrs). (various references) | |
Hebrew | 'ברת (lady, ma'am, Miss, ms.). (various references) | |
Hungarian | néni (Aunt, dame, lady, Mrs.), asszonyom (ma'am, madame). (various references) | |
Icelandic | frú (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Indonesian | nyonya (ma'am, miss, mistress). (various references) | |
Italian | signora (bernice, bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gentlewoman, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, ma'am, missis, missus, Mistress, mrs, Mrs., ms, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, signora, snow, stardust, tool, toot, tradesman, uptown, white girl, white lady, wife, woman). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 御上 (authorities, Emperor, government, landlady, wife), 御寮人 (mistress), 奥様 (his wife, married lady, wife, your wife), 奥さ" (his wife, married lady, wife, your wife), 夫人 (Mrs, wife), 令夫人 (Lady, Mrs, your wife). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おくさま (his wife, married lady, wife, your wife), おくさ" (his wife, married lady, wife, your wife), おかみ (authorities, Emperor, government, hostess, landlady, looking on by an outsider, mistress, proprietress, wife), ふじ" (battle formation, female, heartlessness, inhumanity, lineup, Mrs, Very sincerely yours, wife, woman), "りょうに" (mistress), れいふじ" (Lady, Mrs, your wife). (various references) | |
Korean | 부인 (Dame, Disapproving, Madams). (various references) | |
Lombard | sciora (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Luganda | nnyabo. (various references) | |
Manx | shenn-ghaddee, benainshtyr (landlady, mistress), ben ooasle (duchess, gentlewoman, lady). (various references) | |
Norwegian | frue (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Papiamen | señora (lady, Mrs., thou, wife, ye, you), dama (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Pidgin English | madam. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adammay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | senhora (Dame, duchy, lady, ma%27am, ma'am, madcap, miss, mistress, Mrs., ms., wife, woman, you), madame (ma'am). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | senhora (lady, ma'am, miss, woman). (various references) | |
Romanian | madam, duduie, doamnã (Dame, gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, milady, mistress, woman), doamna (lady, Mrs.), cucoanã (wife). (various references) | |
Russian | госпожа (ma'am, missis, mistress, mrs., ms.), мадам. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gospođa (dona, donna, gentlewoman, lady, madame, missis, missus, mrs., ms.). (various references) | |
Spanish | señora (Dame, lady, ladyship, ma'am, Madame, missis, missus, mistress, mrs., ms.), señorita (demoiselle, mademoiselle, Miss, missy, Mrs., ms.). (various references) | |
Sranan | misi (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Swahili | bibi (lady, Mrs.). (various references) | |
Swedish | min fru, fröken (Mademoiselle, Miss, ms., spinster, teacher, unmarried woman, waitress, young lady). (various references) | |
Thai | แม่เล้า. (various references) | |
Turkish | bayan (Dame, female, lady, lady's, Madame, Miss, missis, mistress, mrs, mrs., Mrs./Ms., ms, ms., spinster, unmarried woman, waitress, woman). (various references) | |
Ukranian | мадам, пані (ma'am). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mụ chủ nh chứa, quý phu nhân tú b , phu nhân (milady), b (ancestress, grandmother, missis, missus, signora). (various references) | |
Zulu | unkosikazi (lady, Mrs.), uma (as, if, lady, Mrs., provided that, when), inkosikazi (lady, Mrs., wife). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "madam": madame, madames, madams. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "madam": bemadam. (additional references) | |
Words containing "madam": bemadamed, bemadaming, bemadams. (additional references) | |
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"Madam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amam, amraam, Amram, Damad, Gaddam, haham, Kadamy, maaaan, Maada, maam, Ma'an, maban, Macam, macan, mada, Madamba, madamme, Ma'dan, madang, Madar, maday, maddam, Maddan, madem, madin, Madm, mado, madog, Madok, madom, madtan, madum, Madya, maedan, Mafdal, magam, maham, Mahdav, Maldoum, mamad, Manam, mandam, maqam, matamp, Matyam, maxam, Maydan, mazdas, mcadam, mdm, Meaham, Medak, Medan, medum, metam, Midan, midem, midgame, Mlada, modam, Mogdham, mundum, Na'am, nadab, natam, Nhadau, Nijdam, Padam, Qadam, Sadam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "madam" (pronounced ma"dum) |
| 5 | m a" d u m | Madame. |
| 4 | -a" d u m | macadam. |
| 3 | -d u m | addendum, boredom, chiefdom, condom, corundum, dukedom, earldom, fiefdom, freedom, kingdom, martyrdom, memorandum, modem, officialdom, random, referendum, Sedum, seldom, sheikdom, Sodom, stardom, subkingdom, tandem, wisdom. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-m" | |
-1 letter: mama. | |
-2 letters: ama, dam, mad. | |
-3 letters: aa, ad, am, ma, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-m" | |
+1 letter: dammar, madame, madams, madman. | |
+2 letters: bemadam, dammars, digamma, hammada, macadam, madames, manmade. | |
+3 letters: bemadams, cardamom, cardamum, digammas, gammadia, hammadas, macadams, madwoman, mandamus. | |
+4 letters: academism, bemadamed, cardamoms, cardamums, gammadion, macadamia, marmalade, mazaedium, melodrama, memoranda, monodrama, mridangam, ommatidia. | |
+5 letters: academisms, ammoniated, anagrammed, bemadaming, commandant, dermatomal, diagrammed, hammerhead, macadamias, macadamize, mandamused, mandamuses, marmalades, melodramas, mismanaged, monodramas, mridangams, ommatidial, tarmacadam. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 64 61 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.. .- -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100100 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a d a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0064 0061 006D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767706779 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Abbreviations 16. Acronyms | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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