BAILIWICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bailiwick mean? 

• BAILIWICK (noun)
  The noun BAILIWICK has 2 senses:

1. the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction

2. a branch of knowledge

  Familiarity information: BAILIWICK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAILIWICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("bailiwick" is a kind of...):

jurisdiction (in law; the territory within which power can be exercised)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A branch of knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field

Context example:

anthropology is the study of human beings

Hypernyms ("bailiwick" is a kind of...):

domain; knowledge base; knowledge domain (the content of a particular field of knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bailiwick"):

landscape architecture (the art, planning, design, management, preservation and rehabilitation of the land and the design of large man-made constructs)

theogony (the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods)

protology (the study of origins and first things)

numerology (the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs)

graphology (the study of handwriting (especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition))

escapology (the study of methods of escaping (especially as a form of entertainment))

military science (the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare)

divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)

arts; humanistic discipline; humanities; liberal arts (studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills))

futuristics; futurology (the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions)

applied science; engineering; engineering science; technology (the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems)

occultism (the study of the supernatural)

architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

ology (an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge)

bibliotics (the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity)

allometry (the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole)

genealogy (the study or investigation of ancestry and family history)

frontier (an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development)

major (the principal field of study of a student at a university)

communication theory; communications (the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.))

 Context examples 

“Thou hast done evil within my bailiwick, and must die.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Another writ has been issued (in His Majesty's High Court of King's Bench at Westminster), in another cause of HEEP V. MICAWBER, and the defendant in that cause is the prey of the sheriff having legal jurisdiction in this bailiwick.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)