• IPA: /dəˈmɪnjən/, /doʊˈmɪnjən/

dominion

1. Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
   • Bible, Daniel iv. 34

     I praised and honoured him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion.

   • To choose between dominion or slavery.

2. predominance; ascendancy

   • Objects placed foremost ought […] have dominion over things confused and transient.

3. (sometimes, figurative) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.

   the dominions of a king  the dominion of the passions

   • 1843 December 18, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], OCLC 55746801 ↗, page 137 ↗:

     Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!

4. (biblical tradition) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above angels and below thrones.
   • Bible, Colossians 1:16

     By him were all things created […] whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers.

• dominate
• domination
• dominator
• domineering
• domino

• French: domination
• German: Herrschaft, Oberherrschaft, Vorherrschaft
• Russian: власть

• German: Herrschaftsgebiet, Machtgebiet, Einflussbereich, Dominion
• Russian: влады́чество
• Spanish: dominio

• IPA: /doʊˈmɪnjən/

1. Any of the self-governing nations of the British Commonwealth.