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Dominie

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Scots A cleric.

n. Scots A schoolmaster.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A schoolmaster, teacher.

n. A pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

n. A clergyman. See Domine, 1.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

n. In some parts of the United States, a clergyman; a parson; especially, a settled minister or pastor: a title used specifically in the (Dutch) Reformed Church, and colloquially in other churches, particularly in New York and New Jersey.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson

Word Usage

"The dominie was a poor creature, whose necessities compelled him to abide in our neighborhood, though his moral sense was greatly shocked at the crimes which were often perpetrated around him."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

clergyman man of the cloth reverend

Variant

domine

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

schoolmaster pedagogue

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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