nonce-wd. [f. ANT sb. + -DOM.] The estate or race of ants.
1865. Hardwicke’s Sci.-Gossip, I. 171. What’s the good of my waging a war of extirpation against antdom when my neighbours don’t do likewise.
1883. in Knowledge, 22 June, 374/1.
| The skeletons of antdom were around that lonely one; | |
| Some had expired in fight, though brands | |
| Were grasped not fast in bony hands. |
