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spydom

spydom noun: a group of spies.

Noun

spydom (uncountable)

  1. A group of spies
    • A paid spydom watched that Nazareth family — as it watched every other working-class family in the empire...1913, Wayne Whipple, The story-life of the Son of Man
  2. (informal) The world of spies and espionage.
    • We were seconds away from making it all the way through “Breach,” a five-hour picture about precisely how dull it is to catch one of the biggest moles in the history of spydom without submarine cars or ballpoint-pen lasers or any of the other usual tools of the trade.2007 May 6, Glenn Dixon, “Busted at the Regal”, in New York Times

Origin of spydom

From spy + -dom.

Questions about spydom

What does spydom mean?
Spydom means a group of spies.
What part of speech is spydom?
Spydom is a noun.

Words near spydom in the dictionary

  1. spycops
  2. spycore
  3. spycraft
  4. spyder
  5. spyders
  6. spydom
  7. spye
  8. spyed
  9. spyeing
  10. spyes
  11. spyess

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