birthdom
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
birthdom (countable and uncountable, plural birthdoms)
- The land of one's birth.
- Privilege of birth; one's inheritance; birthright.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Hold fast the mortal sword, and, like good men
Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom.
References[edit]
- “birthdom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.