About The Word Domain
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What's The Definition Of Domain?
[n] a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited domain of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"
[n] people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; "the Western world" [n] territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land" [n] the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined [n] a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" Synonyms | Synonyms for Domain: area | arena | demesne | field | land | orbit | realm | region | sphere | world Related Terms | Find terms related to Domain: academic discipline | academic specialty | acres | ally | ambit | animal kingdom | applied science | archduchy | archdukedom | area | arena | art | bailiwick | beat | body politic | border | borderland | buffer state | captive nation | chain of being | champaign | chattels real | chieftaincy | chieftainry | circle | circuit | city-state | class structure | colony | commonweal | commonwealth | concern | country | county | demesne | department | department of knowledge | discipline | dominion | duchy | dukedom | earldom | empery | empire | establishment | field | field of inquiry | field of study | free city | grand duchy | grounds | hemisphere | hierarchy | honor | judicial circuit | jurisdiction | kingdom | land | landed property | lands | lot | lots | mandant | mandate | mandated territory | mandatee | mandatory | manor | march | messuage | mineral kingdom | nation | nationality | natural hierarchy | natural science | ology | orb | orbit | pale | parcel | pecking order | plat | plot | polis | polity | possession | power | power structure | praedium | precinct | principality | principate | property | protectorate | province | puppet government | puppet regime | pure science | pyramid | quadrat | real estate | real property | realm | realty | republic | round | satellite | science | seneschalty | settlement | social science | sovereign nation | speciality | specialization | specialty | sphere | state | study | subdiscipline | sultanate | superpower | technicology | technics | technology | tenements | terrain | territory | toft | toparchia | toparchy | vegetable kingdom | walk See Also | academe | academia | archduchy | barony | class | country | distaff | duchy | dukedom | earldom | emirate | empire | environment | fiefdom | front | grand duchy | Grub Street | kingdom | kingdom | Kingdom of God | knowledge base | knowledge domain | land | lap | political arena | political sphere | preserve | princedom | principality | province | realm | realm | region | responsibility | set | sheikdom | sheikhdom | social class | socio-economic class | state | suzerainty | viscounty Domain In Webster's Dictionary \Do*main"\, n. [F. domaine, OF. demaine, L. dominium,
property, right of ownership, fr. dominus master, owner. See
{Dame}, and cf {Demesne}, {Dungeon}.]
1. Dominion; empire; authority.
2. The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted;
the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the
like. Also used figuratively.
The domain of authentic history. --E. Everett.
The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. --J.
C. Shairp.
3. Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the
mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy;
demesne. --Shenstone.
4. (Law) Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one
has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount
or sovereign ownership.
{Public domain}, the territory belonging to a State or to the
general government; public lands. [U.S.]
{Right of eminent domain}, that superior dominion of the
sovereign power over all the property within the state,
including that previously granted by itself, which
authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a
necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made.
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