In the Middle Ages this was a title of great respect for a woman of the highest social rank, the equivalent of ‘my lady’. The expression was borrowed from French, where madame had that precise meaning, ‘my lady’. In the early...

In French this is the ordinary social title of a married woman, or an unmarried woman who has reached a certain maturity. In literature it sometimes represents a use of ‘Madam’, especially when the speaker has pronounced the word in the...

Madam or ma'am is a title for a woman. It is derived from the French madame(look at different meaning of madame here[[1]]), the equivalent of Mrs. or Ms., and literally signifying "my lady." The plural of madam in this sense is mesdames. The French...