erldom
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English eorldōm; equivalent to erl -dom.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]erldom (plural erldoms)
- A county or earldom; a region supervised or ruled by an earl.
- The position of being an earl; earlship.
- (rare) One of the traditional English counties.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “ē̆rldọ̄̆m, -dam, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-30.