domain – English noun declension

English noun forms of domain

Noun: domain
Singulardomain
Pluraldomains

Sample Sentences

  • The king ruled his domain harshly.
  • Bears and other ferocious beasts resented man's intrusion into their domain; so, too, did the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes, whose savage hostility was a constant menace to the lives of the toiling engineers. [1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 128:]
  • Farmers account for just 1.5% of the British population, but the size of their domain – 71% of the country’s surface area is classified as farmland – has given them power over the public imagination. [2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:]
  • A blinded hermit in oblivion, disgraced
  • Like Odysseus lost in Poseidon's endless domain
  • In a realm devoid ov solace, I roam [2022, “Ov My Herculean Exile”, in Nergal, Tomasz Wróblewski (lyrics), Behemoth (music), Opvs Contra Natvram, performed by Behemoth:]
  • Dealing with complaints isn't really my domain: get in touch with customer services.
  • His domain is English history.
  • When examining studies that assess independent living and social skills—key areas of focus in adulthood for individuals with ASD—it is observed that most research evaluates only one of these domains, either activities of daily living or social functioning. [2025 August 13, Müjdat Erarkadaş, Kübra Özmeral Erarkadaş, Şahika Gülen Şişmanlar, “Autism Spectrum Disorder Beyond Childhood: A Comprehensive Assessment of Activities of Daily Living and Social Functioning in Turkish Adults.”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:]
  • Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories. [2012 January 26, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2013, page 86:]
  • 2000, BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual (9.3.2), Internet Software Consortium https://web.archive.org/web/20060619063455/http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch01.html
  • Every name in the DNS tree is a domain, even if it is terminal, that is, has no subdomains.
  • A characteristic of a field. A data domain specifies a data type and applies the minimum and maximum values allowed and other constraints. [a. 2013, IBM, “IBM Terminology - terms D”, in 'IBM Software|Globalization|Terminology', retrieved 29 Dec 2013:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dem-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *dṓmder.
5. Proto-Italic *domanos
6. Latin dominus
7. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
8. Proto-Italic *-ijos
9. Proto-Italic *-ios
10. Old Latin -ios
11. Latin -iusnom.
12. Latin -ium
13. Latin dominiumder.
14. Old French demainebor.
15. Middle English demayne
16. English domain
17. From Middle English demayne, demain (“rule”), from Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”), (French domaine), from Latin dominium (“property, right of ownership”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). Doublet of demesne and dominium, and closely related to dominion and domino. See also dame, and compare demain, danger, dungeon. See: Middle English Nouns 'demayne', French Nouns 'domaine', Latin Nouns 'dominium'.

Verbs referencing "domain"

German Nouns Domain.