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plural domus
(anthropology, archaeology) A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit. quotations
The domus was a unique and unprecedented concentration of tilled fields, seed and graain stores, people, and domestic animals, all coevolving with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen.
2017, James C Scott, chapter 2, in Against the Grain, New Haven and London: Yale University, page 73
(dated) In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford. examples