owndom
/ˈoʊn.dəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The past is our own, the present is the owndom of the future."
- "Hence we maintain that man cannot be a man without property. He cannot be his own without an outward owndom."
- "There must be a tormenting feeling of self-insufficiency in me until I can realize that my self-possession subsumes my all. I must endure my goading ambition until I can acknowledge ownership of all of my owndom."
- "The king answers, and began first to say how Harold fair-hair had owned all the allodial land the Orkneys, "but the earls have held it since in fief, but never as their owndom[…]""
Etymology
From own + -dom, a calque of German Eigentum (“property”), from eigen (“own”) + -tum (“-dom”). Compare Saterland Frisian Oaindum (“property, possession”), Dutch eigendom, West Frisian eigendom.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈoʊn.dəm/
- British English: /ˈəʊn.dəm/