madam

noun

ˈma-dəm How to pronounce madam (audio)
Definition of madamnext
as in wife
the female partner in a marriage the madam and I are planning to go out for a nice dinner on our anniversary

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Recent Examples of madam 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 This, dear sirs and madams, is where your policy reaches a truly impressive level of bureaucratic creativity. — Yehiel Kyle Israel, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026 Her character is a notorious, luxurious madam with family connections to organized crime. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026 How could the story of New York’s most notorious madam, a woman who had the likes of Dutch Schultz, Wallace Beery, Robert Benchley, and Dorothy Parker as regulars throughout the Roaring Twenties be boring? — Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for madam
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wife
Noun
  • In Oxford, Archer met Mary Weeden, a chemistry student who became his wife in 1966.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Murdaugh, a once-rich and imposing heir to a Southern legal dynasty, is scheduled to stand trial again in April on two murder charges in the June 2021 shooting deaths of his wife, Maggie, and younger son, Paul, at their home in Colleton County.
    — Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of wife

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“Madam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madam. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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