Madam

Noun

 * 1) A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
 * ''Mrs Grey wondered if the outfit she was trying on made her look fat. The sales assistant just said, “It suits you madam”.
 * ''Later, Mrs Grey was sitting in her favourite tea shop.  “Would madam like the usual cream cakes and patisserie with her tea?” the waitress asked.
 * 1) The mistress of a household.
 * 2)  A conceited or quarrelsome girl.
 * ''Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam.
 * 1)  A woman who runs a brothel.
 * When she was getting too old  to work as a prostitute she became a madam.

Synonyms

 * dame
 * woman
 * lady
 * matron
 * mistress

Thesaurus
Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mistress, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, abbess, bawd, chatelaine, dame, dona, donna, dowager, fancy man, first lady, gigolo, goodwife, governess, great lady, homemaker, housewife, lady, madame, mademoiselle, maquereau, matriarch, matron, mem-sahib, mesdames, mistress, mother superior, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer, procuress, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw, white slaver

Etymology
From madame, from ma ‘my’ + dame ‘lady’, from post-classical Latin mea domina.

Translations

 * Arabic: سيدة, سيدتي, أستاذة
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: andere
 * Belarusian: спадарыня, пані
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi: महोदया, साहिबा, श्रीमती, मैडम


 * Hungarian: hölgy
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 奥様
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, мадам ,  , барыня ,
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: hanımefendi
 * Ukrainian: пані


 * German:
 * Norwegian: bordellmamma, horemamma
 * Polish: burdelmama


 * Portuguese:
 * Turkish:

Related terms

 * madame
 * ma dame
 * ma'am

Anagrams

 * damma