Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Used formerly as a title for male members of Portuguese and Brazilian royalty, aristocracy, and hierarchy, preceding the given name.
- n. Roman Catholic Church Used as a title before the names of Benedictine and Carthusian monks in major or minor orders.
Wiktionary
- n. A diminutive of the male given name Dominic
- n. An Indo-Aryan ethnic group.
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- Shortening. (Wiktionary)
- Portuguese, from Latin dominus, lord, master; see dem- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Around Green Bay for the next year, Dom is short for dominator.”
“I hope you have also learned the proper usage of the title Dom, and that it is reserved for the ordained normally, and why. pax tecum benedicite oremus pro invicem”
“Ol 'Dom is in the files, as a retired BMC, not as a”
“I think Dom is mearly trying not to get sued for use of the copyrighted term … just like I stopped wearing the color Magenta … damn t-mobile.”
“And with coop play built in, 'Down Again' Dom is only slightly less brain dead when Tim joins in and takes over the character.”
“I just hope Dom is at least a bit more intelligent compared to the walking bullet-magnets in R6: V bruce”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Gears of War getting wicked good reviews.
“I call Dom and I told him what happend, and I know it sounds like I'm lying.”
“It was held by Portugal till the house of Aviz was extinguished in Dom Sebastião, and since that time has belonged to the crown of Spain.”
“UPDATE: Found this one in Dom’s Google Share feed – it turns out that after the bloglashing it received over Fresh Start, Sony’s relented.”
“Next to the Dom is the Altes Museum, designed like a Greek temple.”
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INTERP - titles
Political and religious titles from the UK, US, EU and some other countries. The list is far from exclusive.
Commissioner, Madame Commissioner, High Representati..., President of the ..., Right Honourable, Honourable, Reverend, Admiral of the Fleet, Aesymnetes, Agonothetes, Agoranomos, Air Marshal and 350 more...
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INTERP - languages
This is not a scientific list based on unified criteria, the sole aim was to collect as many language names as possible.
The list contains the names of the following artificial langua...Abkhazian, Achinese, Acoli, Adangme, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Angika and 8674 more...
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