Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

modeldom

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mod-el-dom
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The realm or world of fashion models; models collectively.

Uncountable

noun

The state of being a fashion model.

Uncountable

noun

The industry and community of modelmaking.

Uncountable

noun

The quality or state of being a model (any sense) or exemplar.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"But if modelmaking is not art, why is it that, in the upper reaches of modeldom, where the best do their work, there is an identifiable difference in "feel" between the work of one modelmaker and another?"
"Might the mouse be the Holy Grail of genetic and neuroscientific modeldom?"
"But as the village emerged into the full glare of modeldom in the early 1990s, Yu's tolerance for any form a dissent wore thin."
"They are premodels, short of modeldom because they are not well-defined."

Etymology

From model + -dom.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: model

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

modelhood

Questions

What does modeldom mean?: The realm or world of fashion models; models collectively.
Where does modeldom come from?: From model + -dom.

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