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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bumbledom The dominion of an overbearing parish officer, the arrogance of parish authorities, the conceit of parish dignity. (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Monarchy; kinghood, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy, aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy; commonwealth; dominion; heteronomy; republic, republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; vox populi, imperium in imperio; bureaucracy; beadledom, bumbledom; stratocracy; military power, military government, junta; feodality, feudal system, feudalism. |
Jurisdiction | Judge; tribunal; municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty; lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable; selectman; police, police force, the fuzz; constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "BUMBLEDOM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | бюрокрация (bureaucracy, red tape). (various references) | |
German | Wichtigtuerei (bumptiousness, pomposity, pompousness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fontoskodás (buckram, bustling, cockiness, fuss, fussiness, officiousness, pedantry, pragmatism, priggishness, self-importance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | umbledombay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | burocracia presumida. (various references) | |
Romanian | birocratism (bureaucracy), ifose (air, airs). (various references) | |
Russian | бюрократизм (beadledom, departmentalism, official red tape, officialdom, red tape). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | birokratija (bureaucracy). (various references) | |
Swedish | formalism (formalism, formality, legalism, punctilio). (various references) | |
Turkish | önemsiz memurluk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | бюрократизм (beadledom, departmentalism, officialdom, officialism, red tape). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-l-m-m-o-u" | |
-2 letters: bumbled, mumbled. | |
-3 letters: bedumb, blumed, bombed, buboed, bulbed, bumble, bummed, double, lobbed, mobbed, mobled, module, mumble. | |
-4 letters: blued, blume, bombe, boule, demob, lobed, lubed, model, modem, mould, muled, odeum, oleum, umbel. | |
-5 letters: bedu, bleb, bled, blob, blub, blue, bode, bold, bole, bomb, bubo, bulb, demo, dole, dome, doum, duel, dumb, leud, lobe, lode, loud. | |
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