DAMSEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does damsel mean? 

• DAMSEL (noun)
  The noun DAMSEL has 1 sense:

1. a young unmarried woman

  Familiarity information: DAMSEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAMSEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A young unmarried woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

damoiselle; damosel; damozel; damsel; demoiselle

Hypernyms ("damsel" is a kind of...):

maid; maiden (an unmarried girl (especially a virgin))

 Context examples 

“Surely, sir, you should take shame to hold the damsel against her will.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was a full-blown, very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features, languishing blue eyes, and ringleted yellow hair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When he looked about him for another and a less intractable damsel to immortalize in melody, memory produced one with the most obliging readiness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“To beg of her, you mean,” retorted the damsel.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You came in as the knight does in the jongleur's romances, between dragon and damsel, with small time for the asking of questions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg pardoned him, and Mrs. March's grave face relaxed, in spite of her efforts to keep sober, when she heard him declare that he would atone for his sins by all sorts of penances, and abase himself like a worm before the injured damsel.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Fear not, my fair damsel, said Sir Nigel, but tell me if perchance a poor and most unworthy knight can in any wise be of service to you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Such were these, doubtless—this golden-bearded man and the fair damsel with the cold, proud face.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She is a young damsel of these parts, and she goes now into a nunnery.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would have you bear this in mind, and give great heed to it that you may bring me word of all cartels, challenges, wrongs, tyrannies, infamies, and wronging of damsels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)