(n.) A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.
(n.) The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.
(n.) A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.
(n.) A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
(2) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
(3) Over the last few days a former member of parliament's intelligence and security committee, Lord King, a former director of GCHQ, Sir David Omand, and a former director general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, have questioned whether the agencies need to be more transparent and accept more rigorous scrutiny of their work.
(4) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
(5) Applications of [D-Ala2,Met5]enkephalinamide (DAME), [D-Ala2,D-Leu5]enkephalin (DADL), Leu5 enkephalin, Met5 enkephalin, Dynorphin 1-9 and normorphine produced dose-dependent depressions of the dorsal root potential.
(6) Twitter has hired the former Pearson chief executive Dame Marjorie Scardino to be the first woman on its board, after critics rounded on its all-male lineup.
(7) It was not clear what would happen to other high-profile publishing executives, not least Dame Gail Rebuck, the chairman and chief executive of Random House.
(8) Dame Julie Mellor has accused the boards of hospitals of adding to patients' pain and letting poor care continue unchallenged by doing too little to spot and stop serious failings.
(9) Sands will be the second woman to edit the agenda-setting programme after Dame Jenny Abramsky, the chair of the Royal Academy of Music.
(10) So as Dame Quentin and the soon to be Sir Peter amble off, who is in for a gong at our next round of knighthoods?
(11) She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in February 2014.
(12) Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said at the time however that e-cigarettes should only be used a means to help smokers quit.
(13) Not on the basis of things they can't do anything about' Dame Marjorie Scardino, outgoing chief executive of Financial Times owner Pearson 'I think it is probably wrong on balance to force companies to take women on' Karren Brady, West Ham Utd vice chairman, Kerrang!
(14) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(15) Microinjections (1 microliter) of D- Ala2-Met-enkephalinamide (DAME) (3.4-27.2 nM) into normovolemic unanesthetized monkeys reduced SBP by 10-65 mm Hg in a dose-related fashion.
(16) In a statement, the chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, said: "Severe winter flu and its complications can make people really ill and can kill, particularly those who are weak and frail which is why we already offer vaccinations to the most at risk groups.
(17) Dame Vivienne said the couple's son, Joe Corre, co-founder of the lingerie brand Agent Provocateur, and Ben Westwood, her son from her first marriage, were with McLaren when he died.
(18) In recent days, a former head of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, acknowledged her old agency needed to be more transparent.
(19) Wasn’t it for exactly that kind of incompetence she had been made a dame?
(20) Abramovich said little and spoke only in Russian, with the judge, Dame Elizabeth Gloster, and a packed courtroom of barristers, security guards and supporters listening to a translation via headphones.
Femme
Definition:
(n.) A woman. See Feme, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Discussing activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s anthology, Why Are faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?” , academic Alex Rowlson finds that the increasing phenomenon of profiles on gay men’s dating sites that contain exclusion lists like “no blacks; no Asians; no fats; no femmes; str8-acting only” is indicative of a significant undercurrent; that “ the culture of sexual liberation has been replaced by sexual segregation .” I read a staggering piece recently, entitled Why I No Longer Want To Be Gay .
(2) Trierweiler, who calls herself "une femme de caractère", was referring to the fact that Falorni had been asked to step aside by the Socialist party to enable Royal to win the seat.
(3) The Women Incendiaries by Edith Thomas (1963) Richard Cobb had told me about Thomas’s participation in the Union des Femmes Françaises during the Resistance which left her familiar with barricades.
(4) Recent research suggests that butch-femme role playing in lesbian couples has diminished and been replaced with androgynous attitudes and behaviors.
(5) "The international community wants to force Mali's hand," Diakité Fatoumata Siré, president of women's group Association pour le Progrès et la Défense des Femmes au Mali (Apdef), told journalists.
(6) The stuff that reinforced that image – I'm Waiting for the Man, Street Hassle, Dirt, Kicks, Sad Song – was matched by songs of real tenderness, not in the grudging tears-of-a-tough-guy style, but open and honest and touchingly fragile (see Femme Fatale's ruined suitor warning others off to Coney Island Baby , his lovestruck paean to Rachel, the beautiful drag queen who was his mid-70s companion ).
(7) Both lift us out of our everyday monotony – poets by finding the eternal within the quotidian; royals by gliding about in crowns and ballgowns – and I am not a femme serieuse .
(8) Ardant was discovered by international audiences in 1981, when she starred opposite Gérard Depardieu in La Femme d'à côté ( The Woman Next Door ), directed by François Truffaut (with whom Ardant had the first of her three daughters), but British film-goers will remember her more recent portrayal of opera diva Maria Callas in Franco Zeffirelli's 2002 film, Callas Forever .
(9) He said: “It’s interesting that the artists that have a resonance today are not the ones who had a resonance 10 years ago.” The London sales come with an Atlantic tailwind of the dizzying record-breaking prices achieved at Christie’s in New York last month, including the $179.4m (£114m) paid for Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger, making it the most expensive painting sold at auction.
(10) This led to the Hélène cycle, in which Audran as Hélène played a wife: adulterous in La Femme Infidèle and Les Noces Rouges (Wedding in Blood, 1973), put upon in La Rupture (1970) and betrayed in Juste Avant la Nuit (Just Before Nightfall, 1971).
(11) Jean-Luc Godard 's films alone hit one like bullets, their charge not unlike reading a Stendhal novel – Le Mépris, Bande à part, Une Femme Mariée, Pierrot le Fou, Deux ou Trois Choses, La Chinoise, Weekend dominated the decade.
(12) We thought we were meeting Eva, tourist "greeter" and founder of artists' network Les Femmes du Panier, at Marseille's town hall at 3.30pm.
(13) "Seeing myself in relation to femmes helps clarify that sense of masculinity," she says, which made the changes her body went through in pregnancy even more discombobulating, the differences between her and her femme friends shifting and fading.
(14) Lately, though, she's been joined by other chart femme fatales keen to address death with all the gusto of a Slayer album.
(15) In support of Badinter, Sabine Salmon, president of the association Femmes Solidaires, said that during school visits over the past two years her employees had noticed more and more French schoolgirls expressing a desire to stay at home.
(16) More to the point, where is the female Judd Apatow, playing godmother to a new wave of funny ladies in femme-oriented comedies that allow their characters to live lives beyond Prada?
(17) While there was nothing being sold that would have encouraged the stellar prices achieved at Christie’s in New York last month – record prices of $179.4m (£114.23m) for Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger and $141.3m (£89.97m) for Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme au doigt – there were still seven lots which sold for over £10m.
(18) After the hostile reception to Les Bonnes Femmes, Chabrol was forced to make a series of potboilers until he was given the chance to direct Les Biches (The Does, 1968), a cool, callous and witty menage à trois tale, which put him firmly back on the "art cinema" circuit.
(19) FEMME – High Day-Glo pop entity FEMME, AKA Laura Bettinson, first came to a small part of the music-buying public’s attention via producer Nigel Godrich’s “multimedia trio”, Ultraísta.
(20) As bidding on Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O) reached $151m, Christie’s global president Jussi Pylkkänen – auctioneer for the night – said: “We’re in new territory.” As the final bids rose in $500,000 increments, he spread his arms wide, as if to capture the sensation of the global art market reaching the stratosphere.