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dam·sel    Audio Help   [dam-zuhl] Pronunciation Key
–noun Literary.
a young woman or girl; a maiden, originally one of gentle or noble birth.

[Origin: 1150–1200; ME damisel < AF (OF damoisele) < VL *dominicella, equiv. to L domin(a) lady (see dame) + -i- -i- + -cella fem. dim. suffix]
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dam·sel    Audio Help   (dām'zəl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A young woman or girl; a maiden.


[Middle English damisele, from Old French dameisele, damoiselle, from Vulgar Latin *dominicella, diminutive of domina, lady; see dame.]

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damsel 
1199, from O.Fr. dameisele, modified by association with dame from earlier donsele, from Gallo-Romance *domnicella, dim. of L. domina "lady" (see dame). Archaic until revived by romantic poets, along with 16c.-17c. variant form damozel.

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damsel

noun
a young unmarried woman 

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damsel [ˈdӕmzəl] noun
a young girl
Example: a damsel in distress
Arabic: فَتاه، عَذْراء، آنِسَه
Chinese (Simplified): 年轻女人,处女,闺女
Chinese (Traditional): 年輕女人,處女,閨女
Czech: slečna
Danish:
Dutch: jonkvrouw
Estonian: näitsik
Finnish: neito
French: damoiselle
German: junges Mädchen
Greek: νέο κορίτσι
Hungarian: leányka
Icelandic: stúlka, ungfrú
Indonesian: gadis
Italian: fanciulla
Japanese: 少女
Korean: (결혼하지 않은) 젊은 여성, 소녀
Latvian: jaunava
Lithuanian: mergužėlė
Norwegian: jomfru, pike
Polish: panienka, dziewczę
Portuguese (Brazil): donzela
Portuguese (Portugal): donzela
Romanian: domnişoară
Russian: девица
Slovak: slečna
Slovenian: gospodična
Spanish: damisela, doncella
Swedish: fröken, ung dam
Turkish: genç kız
See also: damselfly

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Damsel

Dam"o*sel\ (d[a^]m"[-o]*z[e^]l), Damosella \Dam`o*sel"la\ (-z[e^]l"l[.a]), Damoiselle \Da`moi`selle"\ (d[.a]`mw[aum]`z[e^]l"), n. See Damsel. [Archaic]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

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