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Dom may refer to:
- The Dom ethnic group in the middle east.
- The Dom people of India
- A title of respect – derived from Latin "Dominus" – for certain Benedictine and Carthusian monks, for example those of the English Benedictine Congregation (e.g. Dom John Chapman, late Abbot of Downside), the female equivalent being "Dame" (e.g. Dame Laurentia McLachlan, late Abbess of Stanbrook; Dame Felicitas Corrigan, author). It is also used in French, as in Dom Perignon, analogous to the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Don or Dom.
- A German (in full Domkirche) and Dutch word for cathedral, as in Kölner Dom or Berliner Dom, from Latin domus 'house/home', and refers to a church as House of God; Italian Duomo; the closest relevant English cognate is the homonphone Dome 'cupola' in (often religious) architecture from the Greek doma 'house top'.
- In Dutch it's also the (non-cognate) word for dumb (only as 'stupid', mute is Stom)
- The Dom mountain in the Swiss Alps.
- The Dominant partner in a BDSM relationship.
- One of the characters in the webcomic Megatokyo.
- In the Universal Century canon of Mobile Suit Gundam, the Principality of Zeon's mass-production mobile suit MS-09 Dom and MS-09R Rick Dom.
- The Dom Tower of Utrecht, a tower in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
As an abbreviation:
DOM may stand for:
- In computer hardware, Disk on module is used as an alternative to traditional hard disks.
- In programming, Document Object Model (DOM) is a way to refer to XML or HTML elements as objects.
- In Latin, Deo Optimo Maximo 'to the Greatest and Best God', originally Jove, later the Christian God.
- Doctor of Oriental Medicine
- In psychedelic chemistry, 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine, also known as STP.
- Département d'outre-mer, a French overseas département
- In preventive maintenance, Date of Manufacture, usually figured in months.
- In computer programming, the delete-operator-message macro.
- In soil chemistry, dissolved organic matter or dead organic matter.
- In Internet Relay Chat (and instant messaging in general), Dirty Old Man.
- Dominion of Melchizedek
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