Translation
lady; queen (in cards and chess)
Word origin
From French dame, from Latin domina, the mistress of the house and the feminine of dominus. The card and board sense followed the French one, where the queen of a suit is la dame.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- domina
- English cognates
- dame, madam, dominate
Examples
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An old lady sat by the window.
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She put the queen on the king.
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The lady wore a long dress and greeted everyone.
is the polite, slightly formal lady of ceremony and old novels; is the everyday Mrs and madam, and is simply a woman. The same word is the queen in a pack of cards and on a chessboard, where o is also heard.
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