Plural of dame

Forms of dame

Dames in a sentence

• The Ealing dames ensured that boys were properly dressed and cared for them when sick, and they also ran the tuck shops.2005, Paul Shrimpton, “Darnell’s School”, in A Catholic Eton?: Newman’s Oratory School, Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing, →ISBN, page 88
• I can see that would be the kind of a chap that the dames would stand for everlastingly.1903 March, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Lieutenant-Governor: A Novel, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Riverside...
• "If either of them dames had a bag like that I'd have remembered.1950, Arthur William Upfield, The Bachelors of Broken Hill, The Crime Club, page 73. From the entry nappy bag
• Cheery hellbrew of cops, dames, gats and slugging.1952 January 30, Punch, page 186. From the entry hellbrew
• Miles was taken seriously by the great dames of Manhattan society and was not scorned by even the most Philistine of their husbands.2002, Louis Auchincloss, “The Heiress”, in Manhattan Monologues, New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry philistine

Meaning of dame

1. noun Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
2. noun A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
3. noun In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.

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Questions about the plural of dame

What is the plural of dame?

The plural of dame is dames.

Is dame countable?

Dame is a countable noun.