Domus
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Domus is a noun meaning (anthropology, archaeology) A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
Meaning
(anthropology, archaeology) A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
More Meanings
- (dated) In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include domicil, farm-yard, andron, earth, settlement, peopler.
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