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dominyon : dominion (n.)
[ Etymology: English: dominion ]

Derivatives of dominyon


Glosses:
dominion
n. (state)1. dominion, ruledominance or power through legal authority.; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar"
~ ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, dominance, controlthe state that exists when one person or group has power over another.; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"
~ paramountcythe state of being paramount; the highest rank or authority.
~ rajBritish dominion over India (1757-1947).
~ sovereignty, reignroyal authority; the dominion of a monarch.
~ suzeraintythe position or authority of a suzerain.; "under the suzerainty of..."
n. (location)2. district, dominion, territorial dominion, territorya region marked off for administrative or other purposes.
~ administrative district, administrative division, territorial divisiona district defined for administrative purposes.
~ border district, borderland, marchland, marchdistrict consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area.; "the Welsh marches between England and Wales"
~ city districta district of a town or city.
~ congressional districta territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives.
~ developmenta district that has been developed to serve some purpose.; "such land is practical for small park developments"
~ enclavean enclosed territory that is culturally distinct from the foreign territory that surrounds it.
~ palatinatea territory under the jurisdiction of a count palatine.
~ residential area, residential district, communitya district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences.
~ goldfielda district where gold is mined.
~ jurisdictionin law; the territory within which power can be exercised.
~ mandate, mandatorya territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves.
~ associated state, protectoratea state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty.
~ regiona large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth.; "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
~ possessiona territory that is controlled by a ruling state.
~ trust territory, trusteeshipa dependent country; administered by another country under the supervision of the United Nations.
~ palatinate, pfalza territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.
~ athos, mount athosan autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century.
~ atticathe territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken.
~ boeotiaa district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athens.
~ papal statesthe temporal dominions belonging to the pope (especially in central Italy).
~ acadiathe French-speaking part of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
~ northwest territoriesa large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut.
~ nunavutan Arctic territory in northern Canada created in 1999 and governed solely by the Inuit; includes the eastern part of what was the Northwest Territories and most of the islands of the Arctic Archipelago.; "Nunavut is the homeland of the Inuit people"
~ yukon territory, yukona territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s.
~ northern territorya territory in north central Australia.
~ northern mariana islands, northern marianasa self-governing territory comprising all of the Mariana Islands except Guam.
~ acrea territory of western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru.
~ british east africathe former British territories of eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar.
~ british west africathe former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast.
~ lake district, lakelanda popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain.
~ gallowaya district in southwestern Scotland.
~ lothian regiona district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh.
~ east malaysiathe part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo.
~ north borneo, sabaha region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
~ sarawaka region of Malaysia on northwestern Borneo.
~ west malaysiathe region of Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula.
~ kwazulu-natal, natala region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean.; "Natal was renamed KwaZulu-Natal in 1994"
~ american samoa, eastern samoa, asa United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa.
~ aragona region of northeastern Spain; a former kingdom that united with Castile in 1479 to form Spain (after the marriage of Ferdinand V and Isabella I).
~ castile, castillaa region of central Spain; a former kingdom that comprised most of modern Spain and united with Aragon to form Spain in 1479.
~ cataloniaa region of northeastern Spain.
~ darfuran impoverished region of western Sudan.; "Darfur was a semi-independent sultanate until 1917 and is ethnically distinct from central Sudan"
~ kordofana mountainous province of central Sudan.
~ louisiana purchaseterritory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada.
n. (group)3. dominionone of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth.
~ body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, landa politically organized body of people under a single government.; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"