Difference between Madame and Madam

What is the difference between Madame and Madam?

Madame as a noun is madam while Madam as a noun is a polite form of address for a woman or lady.

Madame

Part of speech: noun

Definition: madam

Example sentence: Madame Walker was mythologized like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but I want to show that she was fabulous on her own.

Madam

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A polite form of address for a woman or lady.The mistress of a household.A conceited or quarrelsome girl.A woman who runs a brothel.

Example sentence: DuBois - my intellectual hero - had written an obit of Madam, praising her... I began to see Madam Walker beyond the definitions others had given her.

We hope you now know whether to use Madame or Madam in your sentence.

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