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demesne

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7 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈmeɪn/Part of speech nounSorted deeemnsStarts with DEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. territory over which rule or control is exercised

Word origin

From Middle English demayne, from Anglo-Norman demeyne, demene et al., Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”) (whence French domaine (“domain”)), a noun use of an adjective, from Latin dominicus (“belonging to a lord or master”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame. Doublet of domain.

Used in a sentence

  • And whanne he sawe that he lete charce her oute of this land and bytoke hit me and alle this land in my demenys And when he saw that, he let chase her out of this land, and betook it me, and all this land in my demesnes.
  • This area to the west of the city had been a priory demesne in the sixteenth century, but in the frantic landgrab that followed the Restoration of the 1660s, […]
  • Oft of one wide expanse had I been told / That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne; […]

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