Shiadom

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noun

The Shiite world.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounShiadom (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe Shiite world.

    It seems an unwisely conferred blessing really for the Kazvini is known throughout Persia as the biggest rogue in Shiadom.

    1933, Indian State Railways Magazine, volume 6, number 10
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    In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning.

    2005, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed, page 207

    As long as the holiest sites in Shiadom —Najaf and Karbala — were located in Iraq, the ayatollahs regarded that part of the country as their appanage, viewing as an abomination secular Ba'thists' attempts to dictate affairs in the South.

    2007, Stephen C. Pelletiere, Losing Iraq: Insurgency and Politics, page 60

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