Domus
Origin
Borrowed from .
Full definition of domus
Noun
domus
- (anthropology, archaeology) A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
- 2017, James C Scott, Against the Grain Chapter 2, The domus was a unique and unprecedented concentration of tilled fields, seed and graain stores, people, and domestic animals, all coevolving with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen.
- (dated) In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford