-dom
/-dəm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.78 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom"
- "Christendom, fiefdom, Hindudom, Islamdom, kingdom, Saxondom"
- "catdom, dogdom, furrydom, gothdom, wingdom"
- "It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom."
- "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."
- "Potterdom, stfdom"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos Proto-Germanic *dōmaz Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz Proto-West Germanic *-dōm Old English -dōm Middle English -dom English -dom 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /-dəm/
- British English: /-dəm/