damoiselle
French, noun/da.mwa.zɛl/
damoiselle is spelled D-A-M-O-I-S-E-L-L-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 58,502nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Damoiselle is a French feminine noun meaning “damsel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Femme de la noblesse, épouse d’un damoiseau”.
What does damoiselle mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicfeminine(noble) lady
- 2
femininedamsel
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Femme de la noblesse, épouse d’un damoiseau. 2. Jeune femme, demoiselle, indistinctement de son statut nobiliaire ; le mot, pour le sens et l’usage familier, a sans doute correspondu à notre actuel ma petite dame.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of damoiselle
- damoiselles plural
- damoiseau masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce damoiselle?
- /da.mwa.zɛl/
- \da.mwa.zɛl\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is damoiselle in French?
damoiselle appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).