realm

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The life of every person in the realm was at the arbitrary disposal of the king.

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  1. noun A community or territory over which a sovereign rules; a kingdom.
  2. noun A field, sphere, or province: the realm of science. See Synonyms at field.

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  • He encountered what he took to be a giant spider, Jumper, who in our realm is a tiny arachnid, and they were great companions. —  Question Quest
  • It's just that there is more demand for the bad ones, and they require fancier settings, so most of the realm is allocated to them. —  Piers Anthony - [Xanth 29] - Pet Peeve (2005)
  • "This realm is as strange as Xanth," Imbri murmured. —  Faun ; Games
  • [113] It is scarcely probable that both Owyn's (p. 111) prisoners should have married his daughters; and still less probable that he should have exacted so large a ransom from his son-in-law as to exhaust his means, and prevent him from acting as a baron of the realm was then expected to act. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri of Monmouth Vol. I by J. Endell Tyler
  • This realm was to be a fief of the empire like Hungary, Bohemia, and Poland, and transmissible by heredity in the male and female line—a necessary recognition of a woman's right, approved by both parties, for Mary of Burgundy was to marry Maximilian Electoral confirmation alone was wanting, and in regard to that there was much voluminous correspondence and much shuffling of responsibility. —  Charles the Bold
 

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kingdom ·  sphere ·  region ·  aspect ·  conception ·  vision ·  domain ·  existence ·  universe ·  being ·  world ·  essence

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  1. Middle English realme, from Old French, alteration (influenced by Old French reial, royal) of Latin regimen, government, from regere, to rule; see reg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English realme, ryalme, roialme, royalme, reaume, reume, rewme, reame, reme, rem, from Old French realme, reaume, roialme, royaume, French royaume =Provencal realme, reyalme, reialme =Old Spanish reame, realme =Italian reame, from Middle Latin as if *regalimen, a kingdom, from Latin regalis, of a king: see real, royal, regal.
 

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