Domina
noun ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The head of a nunnery.
"Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry."
- 2 A dominatrix.
">Couple of articles about professional dommes, […] It's written "domina". Period. Even in English. If you can't stand Latin endings, I'll grudgingly concede the androgynous abbreviation "dom". But a pseudo-French bastard "domme" really has no right to live, not even on a terminal screen."
- 3 An ancient Roman lady.
"A precious article is the paint with which the Roman domina was beautified; it was well worthy of the case of ivory and rock-crystal in which it was preserved."
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More examples"Matilda, who herself claimed no title beyond that of “Domina of England,” was queen de jure, and, in a historical view, a monarch of high importance, as the mother of the Plantagenets, and the uniting link of the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman dynasties."
Etymology
From Latin domina (“mistress”). Doublet of dame and donna.
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