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Webster 1913 Edition


Domino

Dom′i-no

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Dominos
or
(esp. the pieces for a game)
Dominoes
(#)
.
[F.
domino
, or It.
dominò
, or Sp.
dominó
, fr. L.
dominus
master. The
domino
was orig. a hood worn by the canons of a cathedral. See
Don
,
Dame
.]
1.
A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
Kersey.
2.
A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
3.
A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
4.
A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
5.
A person wearing a domino.
6.
pl.
A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
Hoyle.

Webster 1828 Edition


Domino

DOMINO

,
Noun.
A kind of hood; a long dress; a masquerade dress.

Definition 2024


Domino

Domino

See also: domino, dominó, and dominò

Latin

Noun

Dominō

  1. dative singular of Dominus
  2. ablative singular of Dominus

domino

domino

See also: dominó, dominò, and Domino

English

Two domino blocks

Noun

domino (plural dominos or dominoes)

  1. (dominoes) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.
  2. (politics) A country that is expected to react to events in a neighboring country, according to the domino effect
  3. A masquerade costume consisting of a hooded robe and a mask covering the upper part of the face.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 485:
      all the women were desirous of having the bundle immediately opened; which operation was at length performed by little Betsy, with the consent of Mr Jones: and the contents were found to be a domino, a mask, and a masquerade ticket.
    • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1007:
      Then he hunted for the black carnival domino, supposing that it was the appropriate thing for a penitent to wear.
  4. The mask itself.
    • 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
      He wore a domino, but beneath it could be seen his whiskers, cut after the English fashion, and long and pendent.
  5. The person wearing the costume.
  6. (geometry) A polyomino made up of two squares.
n name
1 monomino
2 domino
3 tromino or triomino
4 tetromino
5 pentomino
6 hexomino
7 heptomino
8 octomino
9 nonomino or enneomino
10 decomino
11 undecomino
12 dodecomino

Synonyms

  • (polyomino): 2-omino

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

domino (third-person singular simple present dominoes, present participle dominoing, simple past and past participle dominoed)

  1. (intransitive) To collapse in the manner of dominoes.
  2. (transitive) To cause to collapse in the manner of dominoes.

Quotations

  • 2010, Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey (ISBN 981426010X), page 107:
    A dismasting often means the dominoing of one mast into the other, down through the decks, cannoning the cargo through the hull below, and sinking the ship very quickly.

Translations

Anagrams


Catalan

Verb

domino

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of dominar

Czech

Noun

domino n

  1. dominoes

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Medieval Latin domino, from Latin dominus (lord, master).

Noun

domino m (plural dominos)

  1. dominoes

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from French domino, from Medieval Latin domino, from Latin dominus (lord, master).

Noun

domino m (plural domini)

  1. dominoes

Verb

domino

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of domare
  2. third-person plural imperative of domare

Verb

domino

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dominare

Latin

Noun

dominō

  1. dative singular of dominus
  2. ablative singular of dominus

References


Portuguese

Verb

domino

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dominar

Spanish

Verb

domino

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of dominar.

Swedish

Noun

domino n (uncountable)

  1. dominoes; a type of game

Declension