dame

kadın şövalye

Britanya’da şövalyeliğe denk bir onur verilen kadınların taşıdığı unvan.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A title given to a woman who receives a British honour equal to a knighthood.

• She was made a dame last year.
• The actress became a dame for her services to drama.
• Two dames attended the ceremony.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: become a dame, made a dame

pandomim kadın karakteri

Geleneksel aile oyunlarında genellikle bir erkeğin oynadığı, komik ve abartılı kadın karakter.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A funny, dramatic female character in a traditional family play, usually played by a man.

• The dame wore a huge pink dress.
• He played the dame in our Christmas pantomime.
• The audience laughed when the dame lost her wig.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: pantomime dame, play a dame, comic dame

yatılı okul bakıcısı

Özellikle Eton’da, yatılı okul öğrencilerinin bakımıyla ilgilenen kadın.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A woman who looks after pupils in a boarding school, especially at Eton.

• The dame looked after the sick boy.
• Each house had a dame to care for its pupils.
• The boys asked their dame for clean towels.

Eş anlamlılar: matron

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: school dame, house dame

Sark kadın hükümdarı

Sark adasının miras yoluyla geçen yöneticilik unvanını taşıyan kadın.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: A woman who holds the inherited title of ruler of the island of Sark.

• The dame of Sark lived on the island.
• She became dame after inheriting the title.
• The island's history records the rule of its dames.

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: dame of Sark, hereditary dame

Dame unvanı vermek

Bir kadına onurlandırmak amacıyla Britanya’nın Dame unvanını vermek.

Basit İngilizce açıklama: To give a woman the British title Dame as an honour.

• They decided to dame the actress.
• The singer was damed for her services to music.
• Would the monarch dame her after so many years of public service?

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: dame someone, dame an actress