[f. QUEEN sb. + -DOM.]
1. The country ruled over by a queen. Also fig.
1606. G. W[oodcocke], Hist Ivstine, II. 9. The Queendome was gouerned by two of the foure Sisters.
1705. Hickeringill, Priest-cr., II. viii. 75. It has been fatal and ruinous to these Queendoms already.
1834. Fraser’s Mag., IX. 248. Ours is a literary kingdom, or rather, queendom.
1873. Ruskin, Fors Clav., xxxiii. (1896), II. 217. She should as seldom leave it [her home] as a queen her queendom.
2. The position of a queen; queenhood.
1657. Trapp, Comm. Esther ii. 12. Whereby they might get the Kings favour and attaine to the Queendome.
1844. Mrs. Browning, Dead Pan, xi. Will thy queendom all lie hid Meekly under either lid?
c. 1861. Mrs. Craik, Eliz. & Vict. (1870), 121. Womanhood is higher than queendom.
1877. G. Macdonald, Marquis of Lossie, xl. [The moon] shone out fair and clear, in conscious queendom of the night.
