domus

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noun

A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.

OriginLatin domus →
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Meanings

noundomus (plural domus)
  1. anthropologyA farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.

    The domus was a unique and unprecedented concentration of tilled fields, seed and graain stores, people, and domestic animals, all coevolving with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen.

    2017, James C Scott, chapter 2, in Against the Grain, New Haven and London: Yale University, →ISBN, page 73
  2. datedIn the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.

Origin

  1. Latindomus
  2. Englishdomus

Borrowed from Latin domus. Doublet of dome and duomo.

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APA

domus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/domus

MLA

“domus.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/domus. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “domus,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/domus.

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