madame

• Madame

Borrowed from French madame, from Old French ma dame (“my lady”). Doublet of madam and Madonna.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈdæm/, /məˈdɑːm/, /ˈmæ.dəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /məˈdæm/, /məˈdɑm/, /mæˈdæm/, /mæˈdɑm/, /ˈmæ.dəm/

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• Rhymes: -æm, -ɑm, -ædəm

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madame (plural madames or mesdames)

1. Alternative form of madam.

• ma'amed

From French madame.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑdɑm/, [ˈmɑ̝dɑ̝m]
• Rhymes: -ɑdɑm

madame

1. madam

• “madame”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From Old French ma dame (“my lady”), equivalent to ma +‎ dame.

• IPA^(key): /ma.dam/

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madame f (plural mesdames)

1. a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address

   Bonjour, madame, comment puis-je vous aider ?

   Hello, ma'am, how can I help you?

   Si vous êtes libre, pourriez-vous aider madame, s'il vous plaît?

   If you're free, could you help this lady, please?

2. madam, Mrs. or Ms.; a title used with a woman's full name or surname, or (in childish language) her first name
3. (in children's language, childish) lady, woman

   Dis merci à la madame.

   Say thank you to the lady.

4. the female employer of a domestic servant
   • 2020, Laure Stéphan, “« Ma Madame m’a dit qu’ils ne pouvaient plus me payer » : au Liban, le calvaire des domestiques éthiopiennes”, in Le Monde‎^[2]:

     Mazaa, 23 ans, ancienne nourrice et femme de ménage, croix autour du cou, cache son visage. « Ma Madame (employeuse) m’a dit qu’ils ne pouvaient plus me payer. […] »

     Mazaa, 23 years old, former nanny and housekeeper, a cross around her neck, hides her face. "My madame (employer) told me they couldn't pay me anymore. […]"

• Unlike in English, Madame is frequently used without a name or article as a polite reference to a woman in the third person, notably in official registers:

  Madame s'est présentée à l'urgence à 18 h 12.

  The/This lady/The patient/Ms. [name] attended the emergency room at 6:12 p.m.

• Although un/le monsieur is used as a common noun to mean "a/the gentleman," using the word une/la madame to mean "a/the lady" is considered childish language. Instead, une/la dame is used.

• dame, lady
• (title, form of address): (abbreviations) M^me, Mme.

• mademoiselle
• monsieur

• → Russian: мада́м (madám)
• → Turkish: madam, madama

• “madame”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdam/^[1]
• Rhymes: -am

madame f

1. plural of madama

• ma dame, madam, madaum, maydame, madde dame

From Old French madame; compare dame.

• IPA^(key): /maˈdaːm(ə)/, /maˈdam(ə)/, /maː-/

madame (plural madames)

1. madam (polite term of address or (less often) title for a noble lady)

• English: madam; ma'am
• Scots: madam

• “ma-dam(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• madama

Borrowed from French madame.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
• Hyphenation: ma‧da‧me

madame f (plural madames)

1. madam (polite term of address to a woman)
2. madam (mistress of a household)

Borrowed from French madame.

madame f (plural madames)

1. madam (polite term of address to a woman)
2. madam (mistress of a household)

madame c

1. synonym of fru (and French)

• madam

• madame in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• madame in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)