Usually means: Young woman, often in distress.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word damsel:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. damsel: Merriam-Webster
  2. damsel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. damsel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. damsel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. damsel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Damsel, damsel: Wordnik
  7. damsel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. damsel: Wiktionary
  9. damsel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. damsel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. damsel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Damsel, damsel: Dictionary.com
  13. damsel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. damsel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Damsel (disambiguation), Damsel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Damsel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. damsel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. damsel: Rhymezone
  19. Damsel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. damsel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. damsel: FreeDictionary.org
  22. damsel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. damsel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Damsel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. damsel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. damsel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See damsels as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A young woman (of noble birth).
noun:  A girl; a maiden (without sexual experience).
noun:  A young woman who is not married.
noun:  An unmarried lady-in-waiting.
noun:  A chattering damsel (component of a mill).

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