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dom

nounverbnouncommon in dialogue

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

A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.

noun

  1. 1

    A dominant in sadomasochistic sexual practices.

  2. 2

    Domination.

Etymology

Clipping of dominance, dominant, dominate, or domination.

verb

  1. 1

    slangTo dominate.

    Nola is actually "Nurse Nola," a dominatrix who specializes in medical role playing. […] "After that," she continues, "I started domming, which I did for a long time, but have never liked much."

noun

  1. 1

    A title formerly borne by member of the high nobility of Portugal and Brazil.

  2. 2

    A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders.

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese dom. Doublet of domine, dominie, dominus, and don.

Forms

plural
doms, dons
past tense
dommed
past participle
dommed
present participle
domming
third person singular
doms
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).