Meaning of Dominie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A schoolmaster, teacher.
   Scotland
2. A pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church.
   US

Equivalents

Examples

“In the first room we entered, a soldier and a man, like a clerk or dominie, were discussing a bottle of red wine; they immediately sprang up and politely proffered us each a bumper.”

“the sign-painter's boy said that when the dominie had reached the proper condition on Examination Evening he would "manage the thing".”

“when it was time for the Strachan bairns to pass the end of the Cuddiestoun road on their way to school down there she was waiting and gave the paper to the eldest, the quean Marget, and told her to show it to the Dominie and ask him what it might mean.”

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