realm

  • 11realm — 01. The King was loved by all the people of his great [realm]. 02. The slogan of Germany s Nazi Party in the 1930s was, One [realm], one people, one leader. 03. In 3100 B.C., the King of Upper Egypt united the [realms] of Upper and Lower Egypt,… …

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  • 12Realm — A realm (pronEng|rɛlm) is the dominion of a monarch: king, queen, emperor, empress, or other sovereign ruler.The Old French word reaume , modern French royaume , was the word first adopted in English; the fixed modern spelling does not appear… …

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  • 13realm — [[t]re̱lm[/t]] realms 1) N COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n, adj N You can use realm to refer to any area of activity, interest, or thought. [FORMAL] ...the realm of politics... Students interests are mostly limited to the academic realm. 2) N… …

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  • 14realm — /rɛlm / (say relm) noun 1. a royal domain; kingdom: the realm of England. 2. the region, sphere, or domain within which anything rules or prevails: the realm of dreams. 3. the special province or field of something: the realm of physics. –phrase… …

  • 15realm */ — UK [relm] / US noun [countable] Word forms realm : singular realm plural realms 1) formal a particular area of knowledge, experience, interest etc the political/military realm realm of: This is not really within the realms of my experience. 2)… …

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  • 16realm — /relm/, n. 1. a royal domain; kingdom: the realm of England. 2. the region, sphere, or domain within which anything occurs, prevails, or dominates: the realm of dreams. 3. the special province or field of something or someone: the realm of… …

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  • 17realm — noun (C) 1 a general area of knowledge, interest, or thought: the spiritual realm (+ of): the realm of human history 2 within the realms of possibility possible: Such a thing is not within the realms of possibility. 3 literary a country ruled… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 18realm — noun /rɛlm/ a) An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined. Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha? b) The domain of a certain abstraction. At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to… …

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  • 19realm — [13] Realm., régime, and regimen are ultimately the same word. All three come from Latin regimen ‘system of government’, a derivative of the verb regere ‘rule’ (from which English gets rector, regent, register, etc). This passed into Old French,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 20realm — noun 1) peace in the realm Syn: kingdom, country, land, dominion, nation 2) the realm of academia Syn: domain, sphere, area, field, world, province, territory …

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