Associations to the word «Beldame»

Wiktionary

BELDAME, noun. (obsolete) A grandmother.
BELDAME, noun. (now archaic) An old woman, particularly an ugly one.

Dictionary definition

BELDAME, noun. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
BELDAME, noun. A woman of advanced age.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne