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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Realm \Realm\ (r[e^]lm), noun [OE. realme, ream, reaume, OF. reialme, roialme, F. royaume, fr. (assumed) LL. regalimen, from L. regalis royal. See {Regal}.]
1. A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
The absolute master of realms on which the sun perpetually shone. --Motley.
2. Hence, in general, province; region; country; domain; department; division; as, the realm of fancy.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
realm
noun
1: a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: {kingdom}, {land}]
2: a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited domain of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult" [syn: {domain}, {region}]
3: the domain ruled by a king or queen [syn: {kingdom}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "realm": ally, ambit, animal kingdom, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arena, bailiwick, beat, body politic, border, borderland, buffer state, captive nation, chain of being, chieftaincy, chieftainry, circle, circuit, city-state, class structure, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, compass, confines, country, county, demesne, department, dimensions, discipline, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, establishment, extent, field, free city, grand duchy, hemisphere, hierarchy, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, kingdom, land, limits, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, march, mineral kingdom, monarchy, nation, nationality, natural hierarchy, orb, orbit, pale, pecking order, polis, polity, possession, power, power structure, precinct, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, purview, pyramid, radius, reach, republic, responsibility, round, satellite, scope, seneschalty, settlement, sovereign nation, sphere, state, subdiscipline, sultanate, superpower, sweep, territory, toparchia, toparchy, vegetable kingdom, walk
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