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Yes. The word dominate is a Scrabble US word. The word dominate is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is dominate a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dominate is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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8-letter words (2 found)

DOMINATE,NEMATOID,

7-letter words (4 found)

AMIDONE,AMNIOTE,DOMAINE,MEDIANT,

6-letter words (36 found)

AIDMEN,ANOMIE,ATONED,DAEMON,DAIMEN,DAIMON,DEMAIN,DETAIN,DIATOM,DITONE,DOMAIN,DOMINE,DONATE,EMODIN,ETAMIN,INMATE,INTOED,IODATE,MAIDEN,MAINED,MANITO,MANTID,MEDIAN,MEDINA,MINTED,MOANED,MOATED,MODENA,MONIED,NIDATE,NOMADE,OINTED,OMENTA,TAMEIN,TAMINE,TANDEM,

5-letter words (64 found)

ADMEN,ADMIN,ADMIT,AIMED,AMEND,AMENT,AMIDE,AMIDO,AMINE,AMINO,AMNIO,ANIME,ANODE,ANTED,ATONE,DAINE,DAINT,DANIO,DEMAN,DEMIT,DEMOI,DEMON,DENIM,DIANE,DIOTA,ENTIA,IDANT,IDENT,MANDI,MANED,MANET,MANTO,MATED,MATIN,MEANT,MEDIA,MEINT,MENAD,MENTA,MENTO,MINAE,MINED,MONAD,MONDE,MONIE,MONTE,MOTED,MOTEN,NAMED,NOMAD,NOTED,OATEN,TAMED,TAMIN,TEIND,TENIA,TIMED,TIMON,TINEA,TINED,TOMAN,TOMIA,TONDI,TONED,

4-letter words (114 found)

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3-letter words (82 found)

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2-letter words (35 found)

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1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 338 words from dominate according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dominate

dominate

Etymology 1

From Latin dominātus, perfect active participle of dominor (“rule, have dominion”), from dominus (“lord, master”); see dominus.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɒm.əˌneɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɑ.məˌneɪt/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈdɔm.əˌnæɪt/

Verb

dominate (third-person singular simple present dominates, present participle dominating, simple past and past participle dominated)

  1. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power
    Antonyms: obey, submit
  2. To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone
    Antonyms: obey, submit
  3. To enjoy a commanding position in some field
  4. To overlook from a height.
  5. (computing, graph theory, linguistics) To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.
Derived terms
  • male-dominated
Related terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin dominor (“rule, have dominion”), either from the perfect active participle Latin dominātus, or via phonetic alteration of the synonym dominant, from the present active participle Latin domināns. Compare the pair predominate, predominant.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɒmənət/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈdɑːmənət/

Adjective

dominate (comparative more dominate, superlative most dominate)

  1. Dominant.
Usage notes
  • Dominate is less common than dominant as an adjective.
  • Some usage guides consider it incorrect to use dominate as an adjective.

Etymology 3

From Latin dominātus (“rule, command”) (genitive singular dominātūs).

Noun

dominate (countable and uncountable, plural dominates)

  1. (historical) The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.
    • 1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317,
      The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.
    • 1997, Thomas Dunlap (translator), Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, [1990, Das Reich und die Germanen], University of California Press, 2005, Paperback, page 55,
      Once someone had attained senatorial dignity by way of the successful tenure of some appropriate magistracy, one of the most important mechanisms of the dominate kicked in: all social rankings and professions were to a large extent heritable.
Usage notes
  • The period begins 284 CE — the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and beginning of the reign of Diocletian, who instituted reforms.
    • In the west, it ends 476 CE, with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
    • In the east, the end is taken either to be 565 CE (the end of Justinian I's reign) or 641 CE (the end of Heraclius' reign).
Coordinate terms
  • principate
Translations
See also
  • tetrarchy

References

Further reading

  • “dominate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “dominate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • antimode, diamonte, nematoid, ominated

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /domiˈnate/

Adverb

dominate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of domini

Interlingua

Participle

dominate

  1. past participle of dominar

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

dominate

  1. inflection of dominare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

dominate f pl

  1. feminine plural of dominato

Anagrams

  • dimenato, indomate, meditano, menadito, metadoni, mondiate, nematodi, tendiamo

Latin

Participle

domināte

  1. vocative masculine singular of dominātus

Spanish

Verb

dominate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of dominar combined with te

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