Dominique

¹

[dom-uh-neek]

noun

1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “of the Lord.”

Dominique

²

[dom-uh-neek]

noun

Animal Husbandry.

1. one of an American breed of chicken, having slate-colored plumage crossed by light and dark bars, raised for its meat and brown eggs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Dominique¹

1800–10, named after French Dominique Dominica

Example Sentences

D'Angelo's former music manager, Dominique Trenier, told the magazine that both he and the singer had been disappointed by the reaction to Untitled's music video, which had come to define D'Angelo's career.

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“It’s been intense and a lot,” said Dominique Dandridge, who lives across the street from the detention center and has watched as vans arrive and depart at all hours of the night.

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“The report shows some signs of stabilization in labor-market conditions, but the regional discrepancies highly discount the strong headline numbers,” said Dominique Lapointe, director of macroeconomic strategy at Manulife Investment Management.

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Dominique Pelicot filmed the assaults and neatly catalogued them on a hard disk, which allowed investigators to track down the majority of the individuals involved.

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The international bestseller, which was published in France in 2022, is drawn from Darian’s journals of the living nightmare that followed Dominique’s arrest.

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