madam

A polite form of address for a woman or lady.

• Mrs Grey wondered if the outfit she was trying on made her look fat. The sales assistant just said, “It suits you, madam”.
• Later, Mrs Grey was sitting in her favourite tea shop. “Would madam like the usual cream cakes and patisserie with her tea?” the waitress asked.

The mistress of a household.

A conceited or quarrelsome girl.colloquial

• Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam.

A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.slang

• After she grew too old to work as a prostitute, she became a madam.

A hated or contemptuous woman; used as a general term of abuseIndiaderogatoryslang

To address as "madam".transitive

• Madam me no Madam, but learn to retrench your vvords; and ſay Mam; as yes Mam, and no Mam, as other Ladies VVomen do. Madam! 'tis a year in pronouncing.
• In Houſes where great Numbers of theſe Wretches are lodg’d it is both merry and melancholy to hear what a Maiding and Madamming there is all Day long, from the top of the Houſe to the bottom.

To be a madam; to run (a brothel).ambitransitiverare

• Margaret Long’s freudianized Louisville does not have the local color of the famous Lexington bordello madamed by the late Belle Breezing (in the process of being fictionized); […]
• Ray [Aghayan] also used warm golden colors for the friendly whorehouse madamed by Melina Mercouri.