madam
- n a woman of refinement
- n a woman who runs a house of prostitution
madame curie
- n French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
madame de maintenon
- n French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)