Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bastard-dom

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

Syllables: bas-tard--dom
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The condition, quality, or realm of a bastard; bastards collectively

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"There are so many eligible fathers in bastarddom."
"It has been untenanted since the death of Lord Raspberry's aunt, "Lady Dolly Dray, the novelist, whose fat resources were built from the scurrilous, scandalising spiteful scions of bastarddom always found trampling on the heels of fame"."
"'That is new a level of bastard-dom."
"You knew, before they'd even done anything, that these kids were trouble. Or, as Parker told the National Post in 1998, “Third grade is really the time when you are at your peak of bastard-dom. That's where the gold mine is.”"
"Now you wanna go off all half-cocked and take on one of the most powerful bastards in all of bastard-dom?"

Etymology

From bastard + -dom.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: bastard

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

bastarddom (alternative)

Questions

What does bastard-dom mean?: The condition, quality, or realm of a bastard; bastards collectively
Where does bastard-dom come from?: From bastard + -dom.

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