Realm

/ɹɛlm/ · noun

Meaning

(archaic or law and rhetoric) A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic or law and rhetoric) A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom.
2. (also figurative) A sphere of knowledge or of influence; a domain.
3. (biology, ecology) A primary zoogeographical division of the earth's surface.
4. (virology, taxonomy) A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.
5. (archaic) A region or zone forming part of a cosmological system.

Example Sentences

1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan", Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, […]

And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.

the realm of physics

the realm of corporate governance

Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?

One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.

At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm […]

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

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• realms
• realme

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