domaine
English edit
Etymology edit
From French domaine (“zone, estate”). Doublet of domain.
Noun edit
domaine (plural domaines)
- (wine) A vineyard or wine estate, especially in France.
- 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 52:
- Put [...] a gun to my head to name the domaine, I would blurt out la Romanée-Conti, for the spicy cassis and black cherry alone.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French domaine, demaine, from Latin dominium or dominicus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
domaine m (plural domaines)
- domain
- 1959, Jacques Brel (lyrics and music), “Ne me quitte pas”:
- Je ferai un domaine où l’amour sera roi / Où l’amour sera loi, où tu seras reine
- I'll make a domain where love will be king / Where love will be law, where you will be queen
- zone
- field (of study etc.)
- domaine scientifique ― scientific field
- domaine informatique ― IT field
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Further reading edit
- “domaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.