slovo | definícia |
madam (msas) | madam
- ma'am |
madam (msasasci) | madam
- ma'am |
madam (encz) | madam,dáma n: označení pro váženou ženu, z francouzštiny Bukovansky
Richard |
madam (encz) | madam,madam n: označení pro váženou ženu, z francouzštiny Bukovansky
Richard |
madam (encz) | madam,slečno Zdeněk Brož |
madam (czen) | madam,ma'amn: web |
madam (czen) | madam,madamn: označení pro váženou ženu, z francouzštiny Bukovansky
Richard |
Madam (gcide) | Madam \Mad"am\, n.; pl. Madams, or Mesdames. [See Madame.]
1. A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of
address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a
married lady; -- much used in the address, at the
beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word
in addressing a man is Sir; often abbreviated ma'am when
used as a term of address.
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2. The woman who is in charge of a household.
[PJC]
3. The woman who is in charge of a brothel.
[PJC] |
madam (wn) | madam
n 1: a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the
limousine for the grand lady" [syn: dame, madam,
ma'am, lady, gentlewoman]
2: a woman who runs a house of prostitution [syn: madam,
brothel keeper] |
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madame (mass) | madame
- pani |
madame (encz) | madame,paní n: Zdeněk Brož |
madames (encz) | Madames, |
Madam (gcide) | Madam \Mad"am\, n.; pl. Madams, or Mesdames. [See Madame.]
1. A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of
address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a
married lady; -- much used in the address, at the
beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word
in addressing a man is Sir; often abbreviated ma'am when
used as a term of address.
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2. The woman who is in charge of a household.
[PJC]
3. The woman who is in charge of a brothel.
[PJC] |
Madame (gcide) | Madame \Ma`dame"\, n.; pl. Mesdames. [F., fr. ma my (L. mea) +
dame dame. See Dame, and cf. Madonna.]
My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of
quality; now, in France, given to all married women.
--Chaucer.
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Madams (gcide) | Madam \Mad"am\, n.; pl. Madams, or Mesdames. [See Madame.]
1. A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of
address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a
married lady; -- much used in the address, at the
beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word
in addressing a man is Sir; often abbreviated ma'am when
used as a term of address.
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2. The woman who is in charge of a household.
[PJC]
3. The woman who is in charge of a brothel.
[PJC] |
Miscellany madam (gcide) | Miscellany \Mis"cel*la*ny\, n.; pl. Miscellanies. [L.
miscellanea, neut. pl. of. miscellaneus: cf. F.
miscellan['e]e, pl. miscellan['e]es. See Miscellaneous.]
A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a
collection of compositions on various subjects.
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'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original,
and sins actual. --Hewyt.
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Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries; a
milliner. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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Prickmadam (gcide) | Prickmadam \Prick"mad`am\, n. [F. trique-madame. Cf.
Tripmadam.] (Bot.)
A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as
ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.
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Tripmadam (gcide) | Tripmadam \Trip"mad`am\, n. [F. tripe-madame, trique-madame.]
(Bot.)
Same as Prickmadam.
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madame (wn) | madame
n 1: title used for a married Frenchwoman |
madame curie (wn) | Madame Curie
n 1: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes;
one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on
radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and
polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, {Madame
Curie}, Marya Sklodowska] |
madame de maintenon (wn) | Madame de Maintenon
n 1: French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king
after the death of his first wife (1635-1719) [syn:
Maintenon, Marquise de Maintenon, {Francoise
d'Aubigne}, Madame de Maintenon] |
madame de stael (wn) | Madame de Stael
n 1: French romantic writer (1766-1817) [syn: Stael, {Madame
de Stael}, {Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Steal-
Holstein}] |
madame tussaud (wn) | Madame Tussaud
n 1: French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made
wax death masks of prominent victims of the French
Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835
she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London
(1761-1850) [syn: Tussaud, Marie Tussaud, {Madame
Tussaud}, Marie Grosholtz] |
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