Major-domo

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Major-domo \Ma`jor-do"mo\, n. [Sp. mayordomo, or It.
     maggiordomo; both fr. LL. majordomus; L. major greater +
     domus house.]
     A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as
     master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or
     officer.


     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  major-domo
       n : the chief steward or butler of a great household [syn: {seneschal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "majordomo":
     MC, attorney, bailiff, butler, chamberlain, croupier, curator,
     custodian, emcee, factor, guardian, house steward, housekeeper,
     landreeve, librarian, master of ceremonies, proctor, procurator,
     seneschal, steward
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Majordomo
       
           A popular {freeware} {mailing list}
          processor written in {Perl} which runs under {Unix}.
          Majordomo is a "groupware" project which evolved from code by
          Brent Chapman , with maintenance by
          John Rouillard .  The current Majordomo
          maintainer is Chan Wilson .
       
          A majordomo is a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or
          takes charge for another; from Latin "major domus" - "master
          of the house".
       
          {Home (http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/)}.
       
          (2001-04-27)