The great Norman survey of England carried out in 1086 for William the Conqueror, the returns from which are recorded in the Domesday Book.

One of the individual surveys carried out as part of the Domesday survey as a whole, for a particular settlement, county or Domesday circuit.

Ellipsis of Domesday Book. / Ellipsis of Domesday survey.

Ellipsis of Great Domesday Book.

One of the two volumes comprising the Domesday Book, being a record of the Domesday survey returns from Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, parts of Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Kent, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and Yorkshire, as well as parts of North Wales.

The initial detailed summary of the Domesday survey returns from the Domesday circuit of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, which was used to compile the parts of the Great Domesday Book relating to those counties.

plural of Domesday Book

The record of two Norman surveys of the city of Winchester from the first half of the 12th century.

plural of domestic engineer

(sometimes euphemistic) A homemaker.