madame

1. 1.

   title used for a married Frenchwoman

   Broaderdame

Other forms of madame

plural

mesdames

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about madame

What does madame mean?

madame means "title used for a married Frenchwoman".

How many syllables are in madame?

madame has 2 syllables: mad-ame. The stress falls on "mad". In IPA it is /ˈmædəm/.

Is madame a common word?

madame is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.