mademoiselle

noun

Definition of mademoisellenext
1
as in madame

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as in duenna

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Recent Examples of mademoiselle Doja also matches the vibe of a mademoiselle while putting her French to the test and posing for photos in front of the Eiffel Tower. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mademoiselle
  1. maid
  2. governess
  3. maiden
  4. mammy
  5. lass
  6. madam
  7. girl
  8. gal
Noun
  • Hines stabbed Jenkins to death while the 54-year-old was working as a motel maid in Kingston Springs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Privacy is included with a chef, maid, butler, and handyman for any errands and such.
    — Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of maid
Noun
  • Claire then made an independent living as a governess and tried hard to distance herself from the scandals of Shelley and Byron.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 June 2026
  • Maika Monroe plays Winifred Notty, a young governess who arrives at the sweeping Ensor House in the 1850s, ready to work for the well-to-do Pounds family.
    — William Earl, Variety, 20 May 2026
Definition of governess
Noun
  • Skinner’s side reached the quarter-finals in their 2025-26 maiden Champions League campaign but failed to qualify for Europe this term after the depth of their squad was exposed amid a busy season.
    — Megan Feringa, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • At the Lortel, her one-woman show plays out on a candlestick-heavy gothic set by Derek McLane that resembles a Barbie Dreamhouse modded for a Meat Loaf video, and Cohen enters in an haute-Ren-faire pink maiden’s dress by Kelsey Randall.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 28 July 2026
Definition of maiden
Noun
  • The board also bears an imprint featuring the British slave ship Brookes with a Black mammy superimposed over it.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2026
  • These include typecasting Black women as jezebels, sapphires and mammies; these depictions, combined with the law enforcement they may be exposed to, increase their vulnerability under the law.
    — Kerry Lester Kasper, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
Definition of mammy
Noun
  • The plot imperative of future Irina surviving to play a significant role in later seasons of For All Mankind gives us so much runway to imagine wild twists and turns for this crafty lass.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026
  • Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of lass
Noun
  • Mysaria, dressed to impress in her white silk robes, invites the madam Sylvi over for an ultra-exclusive backstage tour of the Red Keep.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Ladies’ first big blowup concerns a rumor that an old fair-weather friend of Myka’s is a madam.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026
Definition of madam
Noun
  • And if that happened to me as a person who had worked in the industry for 15 years at that point, what’s happening to other girls who want to learn how to play bass, who live in Idaho, who don’t even have access to instruments?
    — Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Their daughter, Josephine, attended a Catholic girls’ school in the Maryland suburbs, and then, like her father, went to Harvard; their son, John, attended a boarding school in Connecticut, and then the University of Miami.
    — Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of girl
Noun
  • Under ordinary circumstances, antibodies against alpha-gal contribute to immune defense.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Not everyone who is bitten by these ticks will develop AGS, even if the tick is carrying alpha-gal.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 27 July 2026
Definition of gal

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