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REALM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does realm mean?
• REALM (noun)
The noun REALM has 3 senses:
1. a domain in which something is dominant
2. the domain ruled by a king or queen
3. a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
Familiarity information: REALM used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A domain in which something is dominant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Context example:
the rise of the realm of cotton in the south
Hypernyms ("realm" is a kind of...):
area; arena; domain; field; orbit; sphere (a particular environment or walk of life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "realm"):
lotus land; lotusland (an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The domain ruled by a king or queen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
kingdom; realm
Hypernyms ("realm" is a kind of...):
demesne; domain; land (territory over which rule or control is exercised)
Instance hyponyms:
Numidia (an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
realm; region
Context example:
the realm of the occult
Hypernyms ("realm" is a kind of...):
domain; knowledge base; knowledge domain (the content of a particular field of knowledge)
Context examples
"And furthermore," the son went on, "for every chicken he kills, I'll pay you one dollar gold coin of the realm."
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Every page of every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The microbes that live in subsurface realms such as seafloor trenches play a significant role in storing the carbon.
(Major deep carbon sink linked to microbes at volcanic island chains, National Science Foundation)
By a fundamental law of this realm, neither the king, nor either of his two eldest sons, are permitted to leave the island; nor the queen, till she is past child-bearing.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Money emanating from the eighth house generally comes from outside the realm of salary and usually arrives as one large payment.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“And if you could drink yourself in, old leather-head, you had been first baron of the realm,” cried the aggrieved Humphrey.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A dual view of Saturn's icy moon Rhea marks the return of NASA's Cassini spacecraft to the realm of the planet's icy satellites.
(Saturn Spacecraft Returns to the Realm of Icy Moons, NASA)
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The whole realm was his.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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