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Ma'am   /mæm/   Listen
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Ma'am  n.  Madam; my lady; a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.
Synonyms: dame, madam, madame, lady, gentlewoman.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ma'am" Quotes from Famous Books



... jus' 's long as you like, ma'am," he yelled, in the voice of a train dispatcher. "I'll send your friends in ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner

... last, ma'am. Don't be hard on us. 'Tis only a night of our lives, an' we'll be all ...
— Duty, and other Irish Comedies • Seumas O'Brien

... "Yes, ma'am, that's it. You know, papa, that means giving just so much of your money and giving it at a certain time and never forgetting to give it. That's the reason I wanted my ten cents now, so that I can put some of it in the box to-morrow morning. ...
— A Missionary Twig • Emma L. Burnett

... if as how you can pay your rent, because as how we hear Captain Montable is gone away, and it's fifty to one if he b'ant killed afore he comes back again; an then, Miss, or Ma'am, or whatever you may be, as I was saying to my husband, where are we to look ...
— Charlotte Temple • Susanna Rowson

... not to interlard conversation with "sir," or "ma'am." In Europe these terms are relegated to the use of ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke


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