Word Meanings - DOMAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. in the public domain

Additional info about word: DOMAIN

Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. in the public domain may be used by anyone wihout restriction. -- Right of eminent domain, that superior dominion of the sovereign power over all the property within the state, including that previously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made. (more info) right of ownership, fr. dominus master, owner. See Dame, and cf 1. Dominion; empire; authority. 2. The territory over which dominion or authority is exerted; the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. The domain of authentic history. E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp. 3. Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DOMAIN)

• Estate
• Lands
• fortune
• property
• possessions
• demesne
• order
• rank
• condition
• freehold
• domain
• Province
• Tract
• region
• department
• section
• sphere
• territory
• Territory
• country

Related words: (words related to DOMAIN)

• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• TRACTITE
  A Tractarian.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• SECTIONALISM
  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• SECTIONIZE
  To form into sections.
• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• TRACTARIANISM
  The principles of the Tractarians, or of those persons accepting the teachings of the "Tracts for the Times."
• DEMESNE
  A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, Law) See under Ancient. (more info) demaine, demeigne, domaine, power, F. domaine domain, fr. L. dominium property, right
• PROPERTY
  All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• REESTATE
  To reëstablish. Walis.
• UNSPHERE
  To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• AEROSPHERE
  The atmosphere.
• DETRACTIVE
  1. Tending to detractor draw. 2. Tending to lower in estimation; depreciative.
• COSMOSPHERE
  An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see