realm
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English rewme, realme, reaume, from Old French reaume, realme ("kingdom"), of unclear origins.
Pronunciation Nounrealm (plural realms)
- An abstract sphere of influence, real or imagined.
- 1907, Tada Kanai, “The World and How to Pass Through It”, in Arthur Lloyd, transl., Seven Buddhist Sermons:
- Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?
- The domain of a certain abstraction.
- 1922, Judson Eber Conant, “Truth Must be Classified Scientifically”, in The Church The Schools and Evolution:
- One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.
- (computing) A scope of operation in networking or security.
- (formal or legal) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially by a king.
- 1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan",
- Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, […]
- 1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan",
- (fantasy, RPG) An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise — usually ruled or created by a mystical character.
- (virology, taxonomy) A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.
- Italian: reame, regno, dominio, sfera, ambito
- Portuguese: domínio, campo, reino, âmbito
- Russian: о́бласть
- Spanish: esfera
- French: royaume
- German: Reich, Königreich, Kaiserreich
- Italian: reame, regno
- Portuguese: reino
- Russian: короле́вство
- Spanish: reino
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