Meaning of Realm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom.
   archaic, rhetoric
2. An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise.
   archaic, rhetoric
3. The spiritual state of which God is the head; the Kingdom of Heaven.
   archaic, obsolete, rhetoric
4. A sphere of knowledge or of influence; a domain.
   also, figuratively
5. A primary zoogeographical division of the earth's surface.
6. A taxonomic rank in the phylogeny of viruses, higher than kingdoms.
7. A region or zone forming part of a cosmological system.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.”

“1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan", Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, […]”

“the realm of physics”

“the realm of corporate governance”

“Why should we despise anything in the realm of Buddha?”

“One thing more which the scientific man does is to accord primacy to that realm of truth which is primary in importance.”

“At home in Moscow, Mikhail Sergeyevitch Gorbachev, who had launched a campaign to rejuvenate the Soviet realm […]”

“In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.”

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