majordomo

3 definitions found

majordomo - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

majordomo - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Majordomo
  
     <messaging, tool> 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 <brent@greatcircle.com>, with maintenance by
     John Rouillard <rouilj@cs.umb.edu>.  The current Majordomo
     maintainer is Chan Wilson <cwilson@sgi.com>.
  
     A majordomo is a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or
     takes charge for another; from Latin "major domus" - "master
     of the house".
  
     (http://greatcircle.com/majordomo/).
  
     (2001-04-27)
  

majordomo - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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