suff.(后缀)
- State; condition:
状况;情况:
stardom.
明星的地位 - Domain; position; rank:
级别:领域;地位;级别:
dukedom.
公爵的爵位 - Those that collectively have a specified position, office, or character:
集团;界:具一特定职务、官衔或特征的全体:
officialdom.
官场,公务员界
语源
- Middle English
中古英语 - from Old English -dōm * see dhē-
源自 古英语 -dōm *参见 dhē-
suffix forming nouns
freedom
martyrdom
earldom
kingdom
Christendom
officialdom
Origin
Old English -dōm-dom
Related Words
- rhabdom
- archdukedom
- beadledom
- beggardom
- boredom
- bossdom
noun suffix
a. dignity : office
dukedom
b. realm : jurisdiction
kingdom
2. state or fact of being
freedom
3. those having a (specified) office, occupation, interest, or character
officialdom
- denoting a state or condition表示“状态”, “情形”:
-
freedom.
- denoting rank or status表示“等级”, “身份”:
-
earldom.
- denoting a domain表示“范围”, “领域”:
-
fiefdom.
- denoting a class of people or the attitudes associated with them, regarded collectively表示“一类人或其态度”的总称:
-
officialdom.
1885 H. Pearson R. Browning 8Pomona..to express all appledom and peardom.
1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of B. I. i. iv. 58Entitled him to all the honours of B.A. dom.
1887 St. Louis Globe Democrat 2 Feb.,A real, live Dakota man..fresh from Blizzardom.
1880 New Virginians I. 237 Meanwhile curdom flourishes.
1889 Pall Mall G. 3 Aug. 2/2 To test..the good-sailordom of the spectators.
Ibid. 7 Oct. 2/1Imagine Manchesterdom Protectionist.
1894 Times 27 Sept. 7/4 Says Mr. Labouchere, ‘Liberal officialdom has wet-blanketted it.’
Ibid 6 June 11/3 The ranks of old fogeydom.
1894 Henty Dorothy's Double I. 91A..specimen of English squiredom.
1889 Pall Mall G. 26 Dec. 1/3 The classic pile which..divides clubland from theatredom.
1890 Spectator 18 Jan., A pervading atmosphere of topsy-turveydom.
[Noun] state or condition, dignity, realm, office:
1.
a.
< dukedom >
b.
< kingdom >
< Christendom >
c.
< Anglo-Saxondom >
2.
< freedom >
< martyrdom >
3.
< officialdom >
< dogdom >
< stampdom >
-dom
Suffix
- Forming nouns denoting the condition or state of the suffixed word.
- boredom, freedom, martyrdom, stardom
1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage 2007, p. 74:- there always seemed to be one outrageous beauty: an angel who would have been forced into indentured topmodeldom had she been found on a Paris bus; or a wavy-lipped, chisel-chinned, almond-eyed boy-warrior out of the Iliad, as beautiful as humans come.
- Forming nouns denoting the domain or jurisdiction of the suffixed word.
- Christendom, fiefdom, kingdom, Saxondom
- Forming nouns denoting the fandom of the suffixed word.
- furrydom, gothdom, Potterdom, stfdom
- Forming nouns — usually nonce words — denoting the set of all examples of the suffixed word.
- catdom, dogdom
2011, Caitlin Moran, The Times, 19 Mar 2011:- It is only the English language that has let the cabbage down – giving it, quite frankly, the ugliest name in all of veg-dom.
Etymology
From Middle English -dom, from Old English -dōm (“-dom: state, condition, power, dominion, authority, property, right, office, quality”, suffix), from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz.
Cognate with Scots -dom (“-dom”), North Frisian -dom (“-dom”), West Frisian -dom (“-dom”), Dutch -dom (“-dom”), Low German -dom (“-dom”), German -tum (“-dom”), Swedish -dom (“-dom”) -döme (“-dom”), Norwegian -dom (“-dom”), Icelandic -dómur (“-dom”), Norwegian Bokmål -dømme, Norwegian Nynorsk -døme. Same as Old English dōm (“doom, judgment, sentence, condemnation, ordeal, judicial sentence, decree, ordinance, law, custom; justice, equity; direction, ruling, governing, command; might, power, dominion, supremacy, majesty, glory, magnificence, splendor, reputation, honor, praise, dignity, authority; state, condition”). More at doom.
Derived terms
后缀:-dom [名词后缀]
1、表示情况、状态、性质、身份
freedom 自由
chiefdom 首领身份,地位
widom 智慧
serfdom 农奴身份
bachelordom (男子)独身
beggardom 乞丐身份
monkdom 和尚身份
martyrdom 殉难,殉国
2、表示领域、“...界”、集体、总称
kingdom 王国,领域
Christendom 基督教世界,基督教徒总称
sportsdom 体育界
filmdom 电影界
negrodom 黑人社会
stardom 明星界
missiledom 导弹世界
newspaperdom 报界
devildom 魔界
officialdom 官场,政界
scoundreldom 无赖汉总称