-dom
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-dəm/
Etymology: From Middle English -dom, from Old English -dōm (“-dom: state, condition, power, authority, property, right, office, quality”, suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-dōm, from Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz.
Cognate with Scots -dom (“-dom”), North Frisian -dom (“-dom”), West Frisian -dom (“-dom”), Dutch -dom (“-dom”), Low German -dom (“-dom”), German -tum (“-dom”), Danish -dom (“-dom”) -dømme (“-dom”), Swedish -dom (“-dom”) -döme (“-dom”), Norwegian -dom (“-dom”), Icelandic -dómur (“-dom”), Norwegian Bokmål -dømme, Norwegian Nynorsk -døme. Same as Old English dōm (“doom, judgment, sentence, condemnation, ordeal, judicial sentence, decree, ordinance, law, custom; justice, equity; direction, ruling, governing, command; might, power, supremacy, majesty, glory, magnificence, splendor, reputation, honor, praise, dignity, authority; state, condition”). No relation to English domain or dominion. More at doom.
Senses: examples: text: boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom
glosses: Forms nouns denoting the condition or state of the root word.
examples: text: Christendom, fiefdom, kingdom, Saxondom
glosses: Forms nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the root word.
examples: text: catdom, dogdom, furrydom, gothdom, wingdom
text: It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom.
ref: 2011 March 19, Caitlin Moran, The Times:
text: there always seemed to be one outrageous beauty: an angel who would have been forced into indentured topmodeldom had she been found on a Paris bus; or a wavy-lipped, chisel-chinned, almond-eyed boy-warrior out of the Iliad, as beautiful as humans come.
ref: 1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published 2007, page 74:
glosses: Forms nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word.
examples: Potterdom, stfdom
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Forms nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word.
Derived terms: sense: condition or state
word: apedom
sense: condition or state
word: birddom
sense: condition or state
word: boredom
sense: condition or state
word: crocodiledom
sense: condition or state
word: fishdom
sense: condition or state
word: freedom
sense: condition or state
word: frogdom
sense: condition or state
word: halidom
sense: condition or state
word: heirdom
sense: condition or state
word: mammaldom
sense: condition or state
word: martyrdom
sense: condition or state
word: muscledom
sense: condition or state
word: reptiledom
sense: condition or state
word: saintdom
sense: condition or state
word: selfdom
sense: condition or state
word: sharkdom
sense: condition or state
word: stardom
sense: condition or state
word: whoredom
sense: condition or state
word: wisdom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: Christendom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: computerdom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: dukedom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: earldom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: fandom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: fiefdom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: filmdom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: gaydom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: kingdom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: moviedom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: planetdom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: popedom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: princedom
sense: belonging to a domain or jurisdiction
word: sheikdom