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domus

domus noun: a farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.

Noun

domus (plural domus)

  1. A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
    • The domus was a unique and unprecedented concentration of tilled fields, seed and graain stores, people, and domestic animals, all coevolving with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen.2017, James C Scott, chapter 2, in Against the Grain, New Haven and London: Yale University, →ISBN, page 73
  2. (dated) In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.

Forms of domus

pluraldomus

Plural of domus: domus

Origin of domus

Borrowed from Latin domus. Doublet of dome and duomo.

Questions about domus

What does domus mean?
Domus means a farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
What part of speech is domus?
Domus is a noun.
What is the plural of domus?
The plural of domus is domus.

Words near domus in the dictionary

  1. domsiah
  2. domsiekte
  3. Domski
  4. Domskis
  5. domspace
  6. domus
  7. domus de janas
  8. Domville
  9. Domvilles
  10. Domward
  11. domy

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