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-doms

-doms is the plural of -dom.

Meaning of -dom

Suffix (1)

-dom (noun-forming suffix, countable and uncountable, plural -doms)

  1. Forms nouns denoting the condition or state of the root word.
    • boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom
  2. Forms nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the root word.
    • Christendom, fiefdom, Hindudom, Islamdom, kingdom, Saxondom
  3. Forms nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word.
    • catdom, dogdom, furrydom, gothdom, wingdom
  4. (slang) Forms nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word.
    • Potterdom, stfdom

Suffix (2)

-dom (noun-forming suffix, countable and uncountable, plural -doms)

  1. Forms uncountable nouns denoting a type of domination.
  2. Forms countable nouns denoting a type of dominator.

Questions about -doms

What is -doms the plural of?
-doms is the plural of -dom.

Words near -doms in the dictionary

  1. -dipine
  2. -dipsia
  3. -dives
  4. -doku
  5. -dom
  6. -doms
  7. -dopa
  8. -dralazine
  9. -drine
  10. -drome
  11. -dromic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -doms (page history and authors); -dom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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