Home › Words › T › turtledomturtledomturtledom means the state of being a turtle, or of belonging to the world of turtles; turtles, collectively.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, turtledom ranks #12,743 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom turtle + -dom.nounThe state of being a turtle, or of belonging to the world of turtles; turtles, collectively.e.g.“It does not so much impress me as an infantile beginning of life as an epitome of all the past of turtledom and of the earth.” — 1854, Henry David Thoreau, "A Newly Hatched Turtle", in Bradford Torrey, ed, The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal (1906), page 33Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).