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Dominus

American  
[doh-mi-noos, dom-i-] / ˈdoʊ mɪˌnus, ˈdɒm ɪ- /

noun

Latin.
  1. God; the Lord.


Dominus British  
/ ˈdɒmɪnʊs /

noun

  1. God or Christ

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Here’s Kate Dominus again, reading her grandmother’s unfinished biography.

From Scientific American • Nov. 11, 2021

“We had 80-year-old carignan vines at Napanook vineyard in the 1980s,” she says, recalling her early years with Moueix at Dominus.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021

Mr. Wachner kept them so quiet, his hands almost never came above his waist while he conducted; by contrast, he practically danced through Handel’s spirited Dixit Dominus in the evening’s second half.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2018

Does the firm’s Dominus Valley winery in Yountville, California, look like a flat black block?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2018

Dominus," said he to the Abbot, "grant me grace.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene