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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 fancyWebster 1828 Edition
Realm
REALM
,Noun.
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)
- 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.
- 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",
- (computing) A scope of operation in networking or security.
- (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, […]
- 1874, Horatio Alger, Brave and Bold, Chapter XXXI,
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terms derived from realm
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Translations
sphere or influence
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domain of an abstraction
territory or state
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