Meanings
nounspydom (uncountable)
- uncountableA group of spies
A paid spydom watched that Nazareth family — as it watched every other working-class family in the empire...
1913, Wayne Whipple, The story-life of the Son of Man - informaluncountableThe world of spies and espionage.
We were seconds away from making it all the way through “Breach,” a five-hour picture about precisely how dull it is to catch one of the biggest moles in the history of spydom without submarine cars or ballpoint-pen lasers or any of the other usual tools of the trade.
2007 May 6, Glenn Dixon, “Busted at the Regal”, in New York Times
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spydom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spydom
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“spydom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spydom. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spydom,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spydom.
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