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Webster 1913 Edition


Realm

Realm

(rĕlm)
,
Noun.
[OE.
realme
,
ream
,
reaume
, OF.
reialme
,
roialme
, F.
royaume
, fr. (assumed) LL.
regalimen
, from L.
regalis
royal. See
Regal
.]
1.
A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
The absolute master of
realms
on which the sun perpetually shone.
Motley.
2.
Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division;
as, the
realm
of fancy
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Realm

REALM

,
Noun.
relm. [L. rex, king, whence regalis, royal.]
1.
A royal jurisdiction or extent of government; a kingdom; a king's dominions; as the realm of England.
2.
Kingly government; as the realm of bees. [Unusual.]

Definition 2024


realm

realm

English

Noun

realm (plural realms)

  1. 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  []
    • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
      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.
  2. 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.
  3. (computing) A scope of operation in networking or security.
  4. (formal or law) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially 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, []

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