Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A community or territory over which a sovereign rules; a kingdom.
- noun An area or sphere, as of knowledge or activity: synonym: field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A royal jurisdiction or extent of government; a king's dominions; a kingdom.
- noun Figuratively, a jurisdiction or domain in general; a sphere of power, influence, or operation; province; arena.
- noun In zoögeog., a prime division of the earth's surface; a faunal area of the largest extent; a zoölogical region of the first order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
- noun Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An abstract
sphere of influence , real or imagined. - noun The
domain of a certainabstraction . - noun A
territory orstate , asruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by aking .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a domain in which something is dominant
- noun the domain ruled by a king or queen
- noun a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is the realm of _psychical life_; and, still more decidedly and more evidently, the _realm of mind_.
The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality Rudolf Schmid
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A series of recent mind-bending laboratory experiments has given scientists an unprecedented peek behind the quantum veil, confirming that this realm is as mysterious as imagined.
Thor's Day kschap 2009
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In one, the seams are sealed so tight that they are imperceptible; the realm is a closed system, without portals or rifts; it has no contact with any other realms; there is no crosshatching between alternative (i.e. temporal) elsewhens or palimpsesting of alterior (i.e. nomological) elsewhens; everything takes place within that realm.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008
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In one, the seams are sealed so tight that they are imperceptible; the realm is a closed system, without portals or rifts; it has no contact with any other realms; there is no crosshatching between alternative (i.e. temporal) elsewhens or palimpsesting of alterior (i.e. nomological) elsewhens; everything takes place within that realm.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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The subconscious never sleeps and this realm is a vast resource for a writer.
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And in his pursuit of truth, he ventured beyond science and religion to what he called the realm of mysticism.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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And in his pursuit of truth, he ventured beyond science and religion to what he called the realm of mysticism.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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And in his pursuit of truth, he ventured beyond science and religion to what he called the realm of mysticism.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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And to actually go to what we call a realm, because the queen is head of state of New Zealand and to undertake engagements on behalf of her is the first step in his grooming for kingship.
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These four adjectives, cosmic, universal, material, and infinite are almost interchangeable, and apply, as we see, to that realm of the non-individual existence which we call the realm of the substantial death.
Prolagus commented on the word realm
You slept better in a sleeping train in a shed in a station
With a torch and a Woman's Realm to keep you warm,
To keep you company.
(Women's realm, by Belle and Sebastian)
September 16, 2008