Realm
WordNet
noun
(1) 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"
(2) The domain ruled by a king or queen
(3) A domain in which something is dominant
"The untroubled kingdom of reason"
"A land of make-believe"
"The rise of the realm of cotton in the south"
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Etymology
From , , of unclear origins. A postulated } cross of with is usually cited.
Noun
- An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
- 1907, Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons, "The World and How to Pass Through It"
- Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
- 2006, Christian Neef, "Diary of a Collapsing Superpower", Spiegel Magazine, November 22,
- At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm
- 1907, Tada Kanai, translated by Arthur Lloyd, Seven Buddhist Sermons, "The World and How to Pass Through It"
- The domain of a certain abstraction.
- 1922, Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution, "Truth Must be Classified Scientifically",
- One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
- 1922, Judson Eber Conant,The Church The Schools and Evolution, "Truth Must be Classified Scientifically",
- A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, and particularly those territories ruled by a king.
- 1874, Horatio Alger, Brave and Bold, Chapter XXXI,
- And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.
- 1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan",
- Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders,
- 1874, Horatio Alger, Brave and Bold, Chapter XXXI,