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DOMINUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dominus mean?
• DOMINUS (noun)
The noun DOMINUS has 1 sense:
1. a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson
Familiarity information: DOMINUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
domine; dominee; dominie; dominus
Hypernyms ("dominus" is a kind of...):
clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)
Context examples
Pulling off his cap, and clasping his hands, he chanted in a shrill voice: “Benedictus dominus Deus meus, qui docet manus meas ad proelium, et digitos meos ad bellum.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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