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Dom

proper nounnounnounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɒm//
  • United States//dɑm//
  • Australia//dɔm//

A unisex given name, a form of Dominic or Dominique.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A unisex given name, a form of Dominic or Dominique.

  2. 2

    Variant of domAlternative letter-case form of dom.

Etymology

Shortenings.

noun

  1. 1

    A title given to royalty and high-ranking ecclesiastics in Portugal and Brazil.

  2. 2

    A title given to Roman Catholic monastic dignitaries.

Etymology

From Portuguese dom, and its source, Latin dominus.

noun

  1. 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.

Etymology

From Hindi [Term?], from Sanskrit डोम (ḍoma). Doublet of Rom.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An Indo-Aryan ethnic group, living mainly in the Middle East and North Africa.

  2. 2

    A Middle Eastern Gypsy.

Etymology

Related to Rom and Lom.

Forms

plural
Doms
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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