Domus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A 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."

  2. 2
    In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford. dated

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addresscribdomiciledwellinghabitationlodging

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"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."

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin domus. Doublet of dome and duomo.

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