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Majordomo vs Oblate - What's the difference?

majordomo | oblate |

As nouns the difference between majordomo and oblate

is that majordomo is the head servant or official in a royal spanish or italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler while oblate is (roman catholic church) a person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.

As an adjective oblate is

flattened or depressed at the poles.

majordomo

Noun

(en noun)
  • The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=22 citation , passage=Pancho, the major-domo , came up to say that Colonel Morales was waiting below. Appleby bade him bring out cigars and wine, and rose from his seat when Morales came in.}}
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2002 , author=Marta VanLandingham , title=Transforming the State: King, Court and Political Culture in the Realms of Aragon (1213-1387) , chapter=7 , isbn=9004127437 , page=164 , passage=In return for ruling over the king's palace, serving as the monarch's alter ego in the domestic sphere, and bearing the burden of accountability, the majordomo was compensated amply.}}
  • (US, Southwest) A manager of a hacienda, ranch or estate.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=2006 , author=Gray A. Brechin , title=Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin , chapter=5 , isbn=0520250087 , page=212 , passage=She called upon a Missouri cousin named Edward Hardy Clark, who became the indispensable majordomo of the Hearst estate.}}
  • Any overseer, organizer, person in command.
  • * 2009 , The Economic Times , 7 Jun 2009:
  • The United Nation's climate majordomo -- tasked with herding 192 nations toward a do-or-die deal by year's end -- does not have the power to impose an agreement on how to curb greenhouse gases and cope with its consequences.

    oblate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m) and its source, post-classical (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Roman Catholic Church) A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
  • A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
  • * 2007', The Venerable Bede started as an '''oblate at St Paul's, Jarrow, but by the time of his death in 735 was surely the most learned man in Europe. — Tom Shippey, ‘I Lerne Song’, ''London Review of Books 29:4, p. 19
  • Etymology 2

    From ).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Flattened or depressed at the poles.
  • The Earth is an oblate spheroid.
  • * 1922', Why should I not speak to him or to any human being who walks upright upon this '''oblate orange? — James Joyce, ''Ulysses
  • * 1997', ‘ ’Tis prolate, still,’ with a long dejected Geordie O. ‘Isn’t it…?’ ‘I’m an Astronomer,– trust me, ’tis gone well to '''oblate .’ — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
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