▪ I. ‖ dom2
(doːm)
[mod.G. dom cathedral, ad. L. domus (domus Dei): see dome. OHG. and MHG. had tuom.]
A cathedral church.
| 1861 Neale Notes Dalmatia ii. 35 A stroll through the city showed us..the so-called Dom..a building somewhat resembling the cathedral at Graz. 1876 Freeman Hist. Sk., Venetian March, As Innsbrück never was a Bishop's see, there is no dom. 1888 Times (Weekly Ed.) 22 June 5/1 The Dom at Berlin. |
So ˈdomchurch [tr. G. domkirche] in the same sense.
| 1864 Kingsley Rom. & Teut. 219 The domchurch and its organization grew up..round the body of a saint or martyr. |
▪ II. dom
obs. f. doom, dumb; var. f. doum.