domus
nounEtymology Borrowed from Latin domus. Doublet of dome and duomo.
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Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Human sciences, Sciences 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.2017, James C Scott, chapter 2, in Against the Grain, New Haven and London: Yale University, →ISBN, page 73:
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Dated In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.
- Related terms
- domus de janas