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Definition: MADAMS |
MADAMSPlural1. Of Madam |
Date "MADAMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
Crosswords: MADAMS |
| Etymologies containing "MADAMS": madam. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Tajikistan | Pimps and madams are prosecuted regularly. (references) |
Worker Rights | India | Girls rescued from brothels are treated as criminals and often are abused sexually by their police rescuers or by the staff of government remand centers, where they are housed temporarily before being brought back to the brothels as a result of the bribes paid by brothel operators, or legally released into the custody of traffickers and madams posing as relatives. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MADAMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "MADAMS" is used about 8 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 (plural) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
madams organ | 13 |
madams | 13 |
madams poetry | 8 |
madams mature | 4 |
famous madams | 3 |
asian madams | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MADAMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 夫人 (Ladies, LADY, madam, MRS). (various references) | |
Italian | signore (esquire, gentleman, gentleman s, ladies, liege, Lord, man, Mister, mr, Mr., signor, Sir). (various references) | |
Korean | 부인 (Dame, Disapproving, madam). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adamsmay.(various references) | |
Russian | уважаемые дамы и господа (dear ladies and gentlemen, dear sirs and madams). (various references) | |
Spanish | damas (checkers, chequers, Damascus, draughts, ladies). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "MADAMS": bemadams. (additional references) | |
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"MADAMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adames, amadans, amraams, Kadamy, Ma'ams, madames, madamme, madang, maddam, madem, Madm, madmans, madom, madum, madus, maham, mandam, maqam, marasmus, matamp, mazdas, mcadams, medames, medism, midgame. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-m-s" | |
-1 letter: madam, mamas. | |
-2 letters: amas, dams, mads, mama. | |
-3 letters: aas, ads, ama, dam, mad, mas, sad. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, am, as, ma, mm. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-m-s" | |
+1 letter: dammars, madames. | |
+2 letters: bemadams, digammas, hammadas, macadams, mandamus. | |
+3 letters: academism, cardamoms, cardamums. | |
+4 letters: academisms, macadamias, mandamused, mandamuses, marmalades, melodramas, mismanaged, monodramas, mridangams. | |
+5 letters: academicism, commandants, disarmament, hammerheads, macadamizes, mandamusing, mandarinism, plasmodesma, tarmacadams. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 44 41 4D 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in 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 01000001 01000100 01000001 01001101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A D A M S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0044 0041 004D 0053 |
| 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)473538354753 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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