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faydom

faydom noun: the realm or sphere of faerie. Also the alternative form of feydom.

Noun

faydom (uncountable)

  1. The realm or sphere of faerie.
    • [...] far more reduced kingdom of Magic. I am the case of real distress. I am the Magician without a shoe to stand on. My glory is departed — mine, Ichabod the Magician. Before faydom existed, was Magic, awful, erect, weird, inscrutable.1853, Charles Dickens, Household words
    • He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom.1998, George Wyman Bury, The land of Uz

Also used as

faydom is also the alternative form of feydom.

Origin of faydom

From fay (“fairy”) + -dom.

From fay (“fated, doomed”) + -dom.

Questions about faydom

What does faydom mean?
Faydom means the realm or sphere of faerie.
What part of speech is faydom?
Faydom is a noun.

Words near faydom in the dictionary

  1. fayalite
  2. fayalites
  3. fayalitic
  4. Fayard
  5. Fayards
  6. faydom
  7. Faye
  8. fayed
  9. fayence
  10. fayences
  11. Fayette

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