domaine

From French domaine (“zone, estate”). Doublet of domain.

domaine (plural domaines)

1. (wine) A vineyard or wine estate, especially in France.
   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 52:

     Put [...] a gun to my head to name the domaine, I would blurt out la Romanée-Conti, for the spicy cassis and black cherry alone.

• amidone, on a dime

Inherited from Old French domaine, demaine, from Latin dominium or dominicus.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.mɛn/

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domaine m (plural domaines)

1. domain
   • 1959, Jacques Brel, “Ne me quitte pas”:

     Je ferai un domaine où l'amour sera roi / Où l'amour sera loi, où tu seras reine

     I'll make a domain where love will be king / Where love will be law, where you will be queen

2. zone
3. field (of study etc.)

   domaine scientifique ― scientific field

   domaine informatique ― IT field

• domaine public
• nom de domaine

• → English: domaine
• → German: Domäne
• → Romanian: domeniu

• dominer

• “domaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• émondai