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dom

/dɒm/US/dɑm/

dom noun: a dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.

Noun (1)

dom (plural doms)

  1. A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.
  2. Domination.

Verb

dom (third-person singular simple present doms, present participle domming, simple past and past participle dommed)

  1. (Internet, slang) To dominate.
    • Nola is actually "Nurse Nola," a dominatrix who specializes in medical role playing. […] "After that," she continues, "I started domming, which I did for a long time, but have never liked much."2006, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture, numbers 31-34

Noun (2)

dom (plural doms or dons)

  1. A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil.
  2. A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Dom

Dom

  1. A unisex given name, a form of Dominic or Dominique.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of dom.

Noun (3) capitalized: Dom

Dom (plural Doms)

  1. A title given to royalty and high-ranking ecclesiastics in Portugal and Brazil.
  2. A title given to Roman Catholic monastic dignitaries.

Noun (4) capitalized: Dom

Dom (plural Doms)

  1. A caste (or member of this caste) in Indian society, originally comprising drummers or travelling musicians and now generally referring to a Dalit subcaste responsible for the cremation and disposal of dead bodies.
    • Chand Ghat, where Dolly lives, is primarily a Dom neighbourhood, home to a small community of corpse-burners.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 2

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Dom

Dom (plural Doms)

  1. An Indo-Aryan ethnic group, living mainly in the Middle East and North Africa.
  2. (offensive, sometimes) A Middle Eastern Gypsy.

Noun (5) capitalized: DOM

DOM (plural DOMs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of date of marriage.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of dirty old man.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of dissolved organic matter.
  4. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Document Object Model.
    • The same applies to DHTML. Why can't anyone agree on a single standard? Probably because Micro$oft wants to retain a desktop monopoly in the face of superior technology avaialable on other platforms. Even on Windows, Netscape and IE use different DOMs.2000 October 8, David Steuber, “Re: Comparing Perl and Java”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet)
  5. 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine, a psychedelic and a substituted amphetamine.
    Synonyms:
    STP
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of disk on module.

dom meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Telugu

dom in Hindi

डोम, डॉम

dom in Tamil

டோம்

dom in Marathi

डोम, डोमकडे

dom in Telugu

డోమ్
More languagesFewer languages
dom in Malayalam
ഡോം, ഡോമ്
dom in Kannada
ಡೊಮ್
dom in Punjabi
ਡੋਮ, ਡੋਮ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
dom in Gujarati
ડોમ, ડોમ્
dom in Odia
ଡୋମ୍, ଡମ୍
dom in Nepali
डोम, डोम्, डोम गर्न

Examples of dom in a sentence

  • The sub wasn't acting very subby, and the wanna-be dom was looking more like a switch.
  • "It means that I'm both a sub and a dom." "Submissive and dominant," I said.
  • DOM XSS is an unusual method for injecting JavaScript into a user's browser.

All 14 example sentences with dom

Synonyms of dom

Forms of dom

Noun
pluraldoms
pluraldons
pluralDoms
pluralDOMs
Verb
third-person singular presentdoms
present participledomming
past participledommed
pastdommed
Proper noun
pluralDoms

Plural of dom: doms

Origin of dom

Clipping of dominance, dominant, dominate, or domination.

Borrowed from Portuguese dom. Doublet of domine, dominie, dominus, and don.

Shortenings.

Words formed from dom

Phrases with dom

Words that rhyme with dom

6 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about dom

What does dom mean?
Dom means a dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.
What is dom in Hindi?
Dom in Hindi is डोम, डॉम. See Dom meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dom?
Dom can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dom?
Dom is pronounced /dɒm/ (UK).
What is the plural of dom?
The plural of dom is doms.

Words near dom in the dictionary

  1. Dolwyddelan
  2. Dolyhir
  3. Dolyna
  4. Dolynska
  5. Dolywern
  6. dom
  7. dom drop
  8. Dom João
  9. dom palm
  10. dom palms
  11. Dom Pedro

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dom (page history and authors); Dom (page history and authors); DOM (page history and authors); dom (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dom (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dom (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dom (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dom (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dom (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dom (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dom (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dom (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dom (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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