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owndoms

owndoms is the plural of owndom.

Meaning of owndom

Noun

owndom (countable and uncountable, plural owndoms)

  1. (uncommon) Property.
    • The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future.1876, The Musical World
  2. (uncommon) Personal belongings; possessions.
  3. (uncommon) A characteristic; quality; attribute; trait.
  4. (uncommon) Ownership; possession.
    • The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom[…]"1894, Sturla Þórðarson, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Icelandic sagas and other historical documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles
  5. (uncommon) Control of oneself; self-mastery.

Questions about owndoms

What is owndoms the plural of?
Owndoms is the plural of owndom.

Words near owndoms in the dictionary

  1. ownables
  2. ownage
  3. ownah
  4. ownahs
  5. owndom
  6. owndoms
  7. owne
  8. owned
  9. owned up
  10. ownedness
  11. owner

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