different between dismiss vs demesne

English

Etymology

Middle English, from Latin dimissus (“sent away, dismissed, banished”), perfect passive participle of d?mitt? (“send away, dismiss”), from dis- +? mittere (“to send”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?m?s/
• (UK also) IPA^(key): /d?z?m?s/
• Hyphenation: dis?miss
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

dismiss (third-person singular simple present dismisses, present participle dismissing, simple past and past participle dismissed)

2. (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.

3. (transitive) To order to leave.

4. (transitive) To dispel; to rid one’s mind of.

5. (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.

   • “He was here,” observed Drina composedly, “and father was angry with him.” ¶ “What?” exclaimed Eileen. “When?” ¶ “This morning, before father went downtown.” ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina’s case.

6. (transitive) To send or put away, to discard with disregard, contempt or disdain. (sometimes followed by as).

7. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.

8. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.

Synonyms

• (to end the employment or service of): see Thesaurus:lay off

Coordinate terms

• brush off
• send someone packing
• send someone to the showers

Related terms

• dismissal
• dismissive
• dismission

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English demayne, from Anglo-Norman demeyne, demene et al., Old French demeine, demaine, demeigne, domaine (“power”) (whence French domaine (“domain”)), a noun use of an adjective, from Latin dominicus (“belonging to a lord or master”), from dominus (“master, proprietor, owner”). See dame. Doublet of domain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??me?n/, /d??mi?n/
• Hyphenation: de?mesne
• Rhymes: -e?n, -i?n
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

demesne (plural demesnes)

1. A lord’s chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor’s own use.
2. A region or area; a domain.
   • 1816, John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, lines 5-6

     Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
     That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;

Translations

References

• demesne in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• seedmen

Old French

Adjective

demesne m (oblique and nominative feminine singular demesne)

1. Alternative form of demaine

Noun

demesne m (oblique plural demesnes, nominative singular demesnes, nominative plural demesne)

1. Alternative form of demaine